• (disco) in reply to tarunik

    Well, Your Doing It Wrong™

  • (disco) in reply to Eldelshell
    Eldelshell:
    directly proportional

    The more files you have on the desktop, the more computer knowledge you have? Or did you mean inversely proportionate, where as the number of files increases the amount of knowledge decreases?

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue

    When the second graphics card of my old desktop broke while the PC was still barely under warranty, the owner of the store told me that I could make my PC faster by removing all desktop icons. Because if there's an icon on the desktop, the program it belongs to is being loaded into the background which is a bad thing. And you could outsmart it by using folders on the desktop and placing icons in there.

    I never even went anywhere near that store again after such a display of ineptitude. And I left my PC to rot after it stopped working for the last time.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    I'm pretty sure I've heard that before, but I think it applies to files on the desktop not links.

    Not that it matters to me I maintain a clean desktop policy.

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat

    There's a Startup folder you can drop shortcuts into to launch apps when booting. A quick way of going around the less discoverable msconfig menu. But it's not the Desktop, and it doesn't "load them into the background", whatever that means. It launches them.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    When the second graphics card of my old desktop broke while the PC was still barely under warranty, the owner of the store told me that I could make my PC faster by removing all desktop icons. Because if there's an icon on the desktop, the program it belongs to is being loaded into the background which is a bad thing. And you could outsmart it by using folders on the desktop and placing icons in there.

    ...and if you leave files in your recycle bin for more than a few days, they will go bad (depending on the ambient temperature) :smelly:

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    The more files you have on the desktop, the more computer knowledge you have? Or did you mean inversely proportionate, where as the number of files increases the amount of knowledge decreases?

    i'd argue inversely proportional to the square of the number of icons on the desktop (that is proportional to 1/(N2))

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i'd argue inversely proportional to the square of the number of icons on the desktop (that is proportional to 1/(N2))

    My computer knowledge is 0.0004 :frowning:

  • (disco) in reply to monkeyArms
    monkeyArms:
    My computer knowledge is 0.0004

    proportional to. there could be other multipliers

    also why the flagnar do you have 50 icons on your desktop?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    also why the flagnar do you have 50 icons on your desktop?

    I needz dem?

    Actually I need to do a little cleanup, but I usually have > 20.

  • (disco) in reply to monkeyArms
    monkeyArms:
    I needz dem?

    for what?

    i've seriously never encountered a use case where that many icons were required on a desktop. Please elucidate your use case so that i may better understand.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    I use the desktop as a place to store shortcuts to the applications I use the most (right side of screen), and "shit I haven't figured out what to do with but I don't want to store it somewhere and forget about it" (left side of screen). When I get behind on work, the left side can get pretty full.

  • (disco) in reply to monkeyArms

    hmm... ok. i can see that i guess.

    instead of the desktop I use the task bar for the most used apps, and autohotkey to get to them fast (win+shift+v launches visual studio or brings top most instance of vs to top of z-order if one or more instances are currently running)

    as for the store and not forget i use Google Keep as a whiteboard for that soer of thing so i have more than just the icon to remind me where i left a certain task.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i use Google Keep

    Meh ... OneNote ... I even use it during meetings as a scratch pad. Handy because it will import the meeting info (attendees, subject, ...) from outlook. Most used apps go on the task bar. I even have a few pinned websites there. On my desktop I have a few more shortcuts. Mostly internal apps that have no installer and often require a modified shortcut to pass parameters. I also use one specific folder as temporary dumping grounds. It is meant to be empty, like an inbox, but rarely really is.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    OneNote

    That works to.

    If I had that before I started using Google keep I probably would be using it exclusively for that sorry of thing.

    But I got my surface (and this onenote) long after I was using keep...

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    Because if there's an icon on the desktop, the program it belongs to is being loaded into the background which is a bad thing

    I think this might have applied in Win3.1. Did this guy just step out of Blakey's time pod?

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    I think this might have applied in Win3.1

    as i recall it did. 9x changed that and NT kept the 9x behavior.

    of course start up programs can make boot much slower... but icons on the desktop are not how those things are selected for launch.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    I also use one specific folder as temporary dumping grounds. It is meant to be empty, like an inbox, but rarely really is.

    I always have a ~/tmp or Documents\tmp, depending on OS. On this computer, some files have been in there temporarily since 2003.

    Filed under: US Army saying: "There is nothing so permanent as a temporary building."

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    I use the task bar for the most used apps, and autohotkey to get to them fast
    What's wrong with Win+N to switch to the Nth application on the task bar?
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