Hi Ronni, I was interested in your comment (below) - do you still get this overhead from aliases to items filed away (ie originals not on the desktop) - I had assumed aliases were not really causing much desktop overhead but they have their icons like any other item?
Cheers Neil (who is probably overdue for a desktop tidy up) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/7/13 20:30, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > Is your Desktop clean? The operating system treats every icon on the desktop > as a window, so having 50 icons on the desktop is like having 50 windows open > at the same time. This uses tremendous amounts of system resources and slows > everything down.
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