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by cknox

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I have about a dozen users who store files, even folders full of files, on their desktops. When I try to tell them that it slows down their computer they want to know why. I would like to be able to have a printed article to be able to show them, but so far I have not been able to find one.

Can anyone help?

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by tar12

Never heard of storing files on the desktop to be a great issue with slowing down the computer.

by ann777

Files stored on a desktop do not slow down the computer. Things actively running in memory will slow down a computer -- such as screen savers.

by thechas

Realistically, the desktop is just a special windows folder.

Any slowdown would come from finding the Icon for the file, and the increased demands on the icon cache file.

Files get stored on the desktop because users are not paying attention, and use the default file location for the application.
What I would suggest is to edit the registry and system settings that default to the desktop so that they default to the myfiles folder.

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