Saturday, July 27, 2013

What will happen you keep files on your desktop ?




Desktop File

 
When you say you are keeping files on your desktop, I assume you mean you have created shortcuts (icons) on your desktop as a quick way of accessing the files on your hard drive. That shouldn't in itself affect the speed at which your computer operates. They are only links - they don't use up any of your computer's processing power.

There isn't any way of actually "storing" files on the desktop - they are stored on your hard drive, but you can link to them from the desktop.

Things will start to slow down, though, if your hard drive is getting near the limit of its capacity. Look at "properties" under the C drive icon in My Computer - if your hard drive is more than about two-thirds full it may be time to look at how you can free up some space. As far as I know that is the only way in which stored data can make your system run more slowly.







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