Re: Will too many icons presented on the destop occupy memory reso

Mike, I happened to read your reply. I too thought that icons on the Desktop
take up ram, so I organized them in the "window" that pops up when you press
START.
Question: by dragging items to Start, are Shortcuts created here or copies
of the programs? I ask this because when I right click an item there, the
familiar shortcut arrow does not always show. Am I creating a Second copy of
an exe files?
Your input is much appreciated. Thanks
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"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> John
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> Everything that your computer does takes up resources, but re. icons on the
> desktop, XP handles the resources very differently from Win 9x/ME.. back
> then, it could and did affect resources quite badly..
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> However, it is not a bad idea to 'organise' your start menu such that the
> desktop is not cluttered..
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> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/user
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> "john" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Or they just occupy some memory resource while the OS starts up?
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> > Thank you.
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