Re: Why do my Desktop Icons refresh slowly?

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From: ricardo09871 (ricardo09871_nospam_at_excite.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:26:50 GMT

Thanks to everyone for all the great suggestions about my "too many" slowly refreshing
desktop icons.

My ATI AIW 9800 Pro card has 128mb of it's own DDR memory. I don't think it shares my
system memory, but is there a way I can tell for sure?

My system is pretty fast, so I believe it is matched up okay with the video card:

Windows XP Pro with the latest Service Pack (clean install)
P4 -3.0 (800)
1 GB PC3200 DDR Ram
DFI PS83-BL Mainboard with latest Bios
128MB AGP 8X ATI AIW Radeon 9800 Pro
All the latest hardware drivers and software updates

Everything runs great other than the icons refreshing slowly ... I'll clean up my desktop as
a first step.

"Rocket J. Squirrel" <rocky@bullwinkle.com> wrote in message
news:ue5WQNREEHA.1544@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I am a diehard Jay Ward fan, hence the moniker.
>
> I want to apologize to the groups, and especially to "Neil", for making a
> post while having a big snicker on my face. No need to embarass people.
> Besides, in my newbie days I used to ask questions that nobody could
> answer...because they were rolling on the floor busting a gut.
>
> Rocky
>
> "Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User)" <user@#notme.com> wrote in
> message news:utkPuEREEHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Just can't resist responding to another Jay Ward fan...the progenitor of
> > Rocky and Bullwinkle among others.
> >
> > To answer your questions which may well have been rhetorical since the
> > wording implies you know this but for others, the monitor's refresh rate
> has
> > no bearing on the icons refreshing on the desktop. Refreshing is a bit of
> a
> > misnomer as the action is known as "flashing," at least it was known as
> that
> > in Windows 9x and one of the reasons for the nomenclature was to separate
> it
> > from the "refresh rate" as applied to a monitor and graphics card.
> Refresh
> > rate applies to the speed at which the monitor refreshes the screen.
> > Flashing is tied to how the system redraws the desktop. It wouldn't apply
> > to the speed of the computer except in regard to whether or not the
> computer
> > would support the card and that's not speed related though there can be an
> > inter-relationship with regard to a graphics card's speed and the ability
> of
> > the computer to handle it, i.e. a slower system with a card with a lot of
> > memory.
> >
> > Would it apply to an LCD, well, not really.:-)
> >
> > And to all my friends in Frostbite Falls, a hearty hello!
> >
> > --
> > Michael Solomon MS-MVP
> > Windows Shell/User
> > Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
> > DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
> >
> > "Rocket J. Squirrel" <rocky@bullwinkle.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23GAv10QEEHA.3016@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > "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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