Desktop Items stored in RAM?

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A friend of mine believes that all the files you have on your desktop e.g.
videos, are stored in RAM and affect performance. Surely its just a a pointer
stored in RAM to the file on the hard drive and not the whole file stored
there indefinately. Can anyone clarify?
 
Tom said:
A friend of mine believes that all the files you have on your desktop e.g.
videos, are stored in RAM and affect performance. Surely its just a a
pointer
stored in RAM to the file on the hard drive and not the whole file stored
there indefinately. Can anyone clarify?
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Your friend is incorrect.
Prove it to them.
Copy a 2+GB file onto the desktop.
It's not using RAM.
 
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