On 18/02/2011, at 12:18 AM, Dark1 wrote: >>> Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder >>> or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. > > This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop > in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons > stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the > contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was > just the folder its-self. > > Thanks > Ruben >
I once had a client who complained that his eMac had slowed down so much it had become impossible to use, taking up to five minutes or more to do such simple things as opening a menu. When I saw his computer I found out why. He had almost 800 icons all piled up in the top RH corner of his desktop! Mac OS X does not like piling icons! Don't forget that modern Mac OS X icons are 512 x 512 pixels (roughly the same size as the screen size of the original 1984 Macintosh!), and take the same amount of memory when displayed at 16 x 16 pixels as they do when drawn at full size. The eMac was running Tiger, so the icons were not quite that large, but the physics are the same. Trying to display that many icons all at once, together with the processing power required to track them all, was taxing the poor old eMac to its limit. I showed him how to move all those items to other locations and left him to it... Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
