Re: Why do my Desktop Icons refresh slowly?

From: Rocket J. Squirrel (rocky_at_bullwinkle.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:31:47 -0500

"Also look to see what your desk top refresh rate is set at in comparison to
the size of monitor that you are using. That should speed up the machine
big time."

Could you explain what a monitor's refresh rate has to do with the speed of
a computer? And does this also apply to LCD monitors?

Rocky

"Neil" <crosen@gordon.army.mil> wrote in message
news:%23vwMOtQEEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Yes, get rid of all the short cuts/downloads/.Zip files that you have
> already extracted. Also look to see what your desk top refresh rate is
set
> at in comparison to the size of monitor that you are using. That should
> speed up the machine big time. While you are at it go ahead and get rid
of
> the programs that are in the sys tray that you never use. Most of them
have
> an option to not display in the systray or not start during boot up.
Other
> than that your machine should be really fast.
>
> --
> Neil Crose
> University of Information Technology
> Ft. Gordon, Georgia
> crosen@gordon.army.mil
> "ricardo09871" <ricardo09871_nospam@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:xs_7c.74868$Cb.1005688@attbi_s51...
> > My Windows XP Pro desktop icons are refreshing as a batch every five
> minutes or so and quite
> > slowly also. This usually happens after I close another application
> that's been covering
> > the desktop. I've got about 50 desktop icons and they are set for Auto
> Arrange.
> >
> > Is that too many?
> >
> > I am not using any desktop theme other than a solid color and have
active
> desktop turned
> > off.
> >
> > My video card is an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro plus a P4C-3.0
(800)
> on a Intel i865
> > chipset mainboard. I have 1 GB of DDR PC3200 memory and I let Windows
> manage my Pagefile.
> > All my hardware drivers are up-to-date.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>

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