download to desktop
- Thread starter monoman
- Start date
Irishwhistle
New Member
This will slow down speed, especially startup.
computerhakk
VIP Member
Who told you that? I have never heard that before. Unless with "desktop" they mean something else, then probably. However, there should be no effect on your pc.
The_Other_One
VIP Member
Care to explain the coronation between the desktop and startup? I certainly know of none. Desktop, root, startup...it all is just a directory on your hard drive...
patrickv
Active Member
whoever told you that ? ain't no problem with downloadind to desktop.
the one who told you that is a psycho path
monoman
New Member
to be honest I have read it on a few posts on this computer forum in the pasts, not that I am able to find an example now out of 1000s of posts.
..yeh, I probably just misinterpreted it, they probably meant 'dont download to the desktop, because it will put more and more icons on the desktop, which can slow down the startup'.
thing is, I do download to the desktop, but always keep the minimum amount of icons on there as possible because of the startup slowing down. I was just worried that there might be some other problem tangled up with it, and curious to know what it is.
thanks for clearing it up
I have been told that your windows profile will start to cause logon/logoff errors if it get over 1 GB.
I have seen users profiles cause errors when they reach 2GB
the errors were on systems on a DOMAIN but was something like
" unable to save/load the profile .......... something, somthing .... "
you would not be able to logon, or if you was already logged on, you was not able to loggoff until you made the profile smaller.
BTW this was not a disk Space issue.
this could be what the person is talking about.
I have seen users profiles cause errors when they reach 2GB
the errors were on systems on a DOMAIN but was something like
" unable to save/load the profile .......... something, somthing .... "
you would not be able to logon, or if you was already logged on, you was not able to loggoff until you made the profile smaller.
BTW this was not a disk Space issue.
this could be what the person is talking about.
DrCuddles
New Member
Yes. that is right, i have only 3 icons on my desktop because of the start up times, i suggest if you want an easy way to find your downloaded items, then make a folder that they all go into or make a shortcut to a folder somewhere else on your computer, the latter being my favoured option.
Last edited: