Numerous files, pdf's and movie clips on desktop

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Does having numerous actual files on the desktop cause performance problems?

I have seen this with roaming profiles, but I was wondering if there was
best practices on this. I work at a financial firm and these traders/sales
people tend to have tons of files on the desktop, and the same few who do
this always seem to have performance problems...

Any info would greatly help...thanks,

Lance
 
CRSTeK said:
Does having numerous actual files on the desktop cause performance
problems?

I have seen this with roaming profiles, but I was wondering if
there was best practices on this. I work at a financial firm and
these traders/sales people tend to have tons of files on the
desktop, and the same few who do this always seem to have
performance problems...

Any info would greatly help...thanks,
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Those who do have performance problems and all those files on the desktop -
are they system administrators?
 
Having actual files on the desktop isn't going to affect the performance but
if the free space on that drive is extremely low it wouldn't hurt to clean
them up. Its most likely if they are having performance issues that they
have too many things running on the cpu not too many actual files.

First check the free disk space. Right click my computer->Manage->Disk
Management and see what % of the drive is free. If its under 10% you may
want to clean it up by moving some files to another drive.

Second I would suggest getting process explorer from microsofts website
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx)
and when you start having performance problems run that and find what process
is bogging down the system.

Hope that helps some.
 
YES THIS CAN CAUSE PERFORMANCE IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO LOAD THE FILES BECAUSE
YOUR NOT USING SHORTCUTS , IT ALSO TAKES LONGER TO BOOT AT STARTUP
 
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