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cletus · Guest

Why not get rid of all that clutter from your desktop and add this simple program which allows you to place them all in one really slick and easy to use dock, with a wonderfully smooth scroll action between icons and easy to configure, my computer has increased in speed due to the fact that there are no longer any items on the desktop...

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note the image above is of the paid one, the free one is somewhat limited...

Also try out a vista style WINFLIP...
in the settings change the mouse to Click middle mouse button, when you have multiple windows open at the same time, click the middle mouse button then you all the windows appear in the centre of the screen similar to pages of a book with the windows stepped backed into the distance, then click on the page you want and it brings it to the front...

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bare in mind winflip will require a reasonably good computer, but most are nowadays so dont worry about your system resources...it dont use much

Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 39

Don't understand how that would make your PC run faster, the items on your desktop are surely only shortcuts to programs that you have installed, so how by moving them somewhere else does this work? also by installing another prog to deal with them are you not using more of your disc space, would it not be better to use the desktop cleanup wizard

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Raven · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

thats what i was wondering , one way way of making your pc run faster is to disable any programmes that auto run on start up ,pointless having them runinng if you dont use them on a regular basis

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localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 273

Gotta agree with Maz and Raven on this one.

Having an extra program on board sucking resources (HOWEVER little) is pointless, a bit of creativity and fun, and you can do these things yourself.

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cletus · Guest

when you have a desktop screen full of icons, your using valuable video memory which slows down the operation of your computer, by adding them all to a seperate system process like object dock that does not use the desktop screen memory you free it up... my computer runs smoother and faster now without all those desktop icons.

cletus · Guest

Maz wrote:

Don't understand how that would make your PC run faster, the items on your desktop are surely only shortcuts to programs that you have installed, so how by moving them somewhere else does this work? also by installing another prog to deal with them are you not using more of your disc space, would it not be better to use the desktop cleanup wizard

windows xp and vista are essentially lots of programs assembled together to make the operating system... by taking the items of your desktop and letting a seperate program take control of them you free up screen memory, and this is one thing that can slow your computer down...

localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 273

You know, there is an even simpler soloution than that... and its one I have always stuck by....don't have lots of desktop icons.

I have 4, everything else is in the start menu, with 4 different ones in the quick launch area, so basically i have access to 8 programs without running a separate program for them. Don't get me wrong, each to their own, but in my opinion, adding a program which uses memory, to free memory is kinda pointless

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cletus · Guest

localad wrote:

You know, there is an even simpler soloution than that... and its one I have always stuck by....don't have lots of desktop icons.

I have 4, everything else is in the start menu, with 4 different ones in the quick launch area, so basically i have access to 8 programs without running a separate program for them. Don't get me wrong, each to their own, but in my opinion, adding a program which uses memory, to free memory is kinda pointless

your right in one respect, by loading another program to free other memory does seem pointless, but the memory the program uses does not slow the computer down, by removing things that use video memory it increases the speed.. ive just installed it on my mums computer which is a bog standard pentium 4 running at 2.9ghz, it was taking ages to load, i installed object dock and added all her desktop icons to it, did a restart and her computer loaded 1minute quicker since it was referencing and finding all the shortcut programs which she was using, and once once the dock had loaded it was ready to use and it solved all her performance issues.. but its down to personal preference, i personally hate having to look through my start menu to find what im looking for