[Software] The Iconic Desktop Effect: How It Affects Your Windows System Performance.

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Not a few are laptop or desktop users who have dozens or hundreds of icons on their screen. Starting from that unpleasant situation, a series of scenarios were created related to how it affects system performance.

 

Ever since my first Windows systems, it has been pointed out to me that a clean desktop translates into a faster PC. No one has really argued for the logic behind that statement, but for more than a decade, I haven't had any icons on my desktop, and it's possible that my decision to do so was influenced by that "advice" as well.

 

 

There are many explanations for how a computer's performance is influenced by desktop icons, and I'll cite a few of them below, with a simple conclusion to remember. Systems with current hardware configurations are no longer influenced by the number of icons on the desktop, but those had quite an impact 15-20 years ago, when PCs were significantly slower.

 

Although it would be ideal to move your desktop icons into a folder, to find them easier and enjoy "cleanliness", the speed of starting and closing the PC is not significantly influenced by their number, more rather not at all.

 

In the boot process, the operating system loads desktop icons into RAM, but if most of them are shortcuts to programs installed on the computer, they are only a few KB, and a PC with 4GB or 8GB of RAM is immune to that unnecessary memory consumption. Even if you have many files on your desktop, such as PDFs, Word documents, pictures or movies, the operating system only loads the icon of those files, which is still a few Kb, compared to the few GB of RAM you have install on the system.

 

On the other hand, you'd better never keep important documents on your desktop, because you risk losing them if your Windows PC decides to give up one day. The good part is that you won't be spoiled by the number of icons you have in the foreground.

 

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