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by waverly.nichols

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does having a bunch of icons on the task bar used a lot of memory or waste a lot of space? Which is better: to have desktop icons or have them on the task bar?

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by thechas

There are 4 sections of the Taskbar.
From left to right:

Start
Quick Launch
Open Programs
System Tray

The Icons in the quick launch tray are really shortcuts, and use no more resources than desktop shortcut icons.
However, they are usually duplicated on the start menu, and on the desktop.
Multiple shortcuts for the same program use more hard disk space.
Each shortcut takes 1 cluster of hard drive space to store it.
In a FAT32 file system on a large hard drive, this can be 32K bytes per shortcut.

The real resource user is the icons in the system tray. Each Icon means that there is a program running in the background, using resources.

While you do need / want some of these programs, you should get disable any program that you do not use that has an icon in the taskbar.

Chas

by lildude_69_1981

my icons on the lower right hand side down by the clock are really small and i dont know how to make them bigger...could u please help me out?

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