I have several items on my Desktop. When I went to download a couple of games, I chose to save it to Desktop. When I went to look on the actual desktop (the screen), I could not find it. I had to do a search to find the file in desktop.

Is there a limit as to how many icons, etc. can be placed on the screen at one time? Also, how do I create a new folder? I plan on using these folders to better organize and clear the desktop.

I honestly don't know if there is al imit to how many icons, shortcuts, etc... that you can have on your desktop. I only keep four on there (My Computer, Recycle Bin, Briefcase and a temp folder for downloads and such).

As for creating a new folder? Try doing it in an Explorer window. You can then view everything on your desktop by the "List" view and should be able to move the stuff you no longer want there into the new folder.

Let me know how it goes.

Originally posted by Shakey
I honestly don't know if there is al imit to how many icons, shortcuts, etc... that you can have on your desktop. I only keep four on there (My Computer, Recycle Bin, Briefcase and a temp folder for downloads and such).

As for creating a new folder? Try doing it in an Explorer window. You can then view everything on your desktop by the "List" view and should be able to move the stuff you no longer want there into the new folder.

Let me know how it goes.

Can create a folder by going to the Favorites. However, it adds this page to the favorites.

I noticed an option you can checkmark called make available offline. Will this enable me to create the new folder without saving this particular page to it?

EDIT: Just discovered earlier this evening the only limit to the desktop is how big it is:hammer:

In order to change the size of the desktop, go to the Start menu. Under Settings, go to "Active Desktop". Under this your given several tabs. Go to the one marked "Settings" in this box there is a box marked Screen Area. This will enable you to change how much you can fit on your screen (yes, for those like me that once in a while have a cluttered screen :D). Be warned the larger the screen, the smaller the print.

Used this option to make new folders to organize some of my items (and thus reduce my screen back to normal afterwards);)

I think desktop icons use your memory..right? If that's the case, is it better to not have too many? I have about 29 now.

Too much of anything will halter Windows any day .... this is my desktop .... I like it cleansed of any sh*t. Instead I make a few shortcuts to various locations, thus keeping my desktop clean & pop-up menu (Start) clear :)

Originally posted by 80sSmurf
Too much of anything will halter Windows any day .... this is my desktop .... I like it cleansed of any sh*t. Instead I make a few shortcuts to various locations, thus keeping my desktop clean & pop-up menu (Start) clear :)

:bigeek: That's one clean Desktop :bigeek: Some of the items I've moved to the shortcut folders never disappear off the screen when I move them to the folders, yet it shows a shortcut to the item when I access the folder.

Am I able to delete the non-shortcut item from the screen and still be able to access a copy of it through the shortcut in the folder?

You should be able to delete the shortcuts left on your desktop that you don't want anymore. The shortcut in your folder will not point to the old shortcut, but to the original program.

Yup, Shakey's right ... 99.9% of all apps and progs you install will ad a shortcut to your desktop and your start pop.up menu, these are all save to delete. You can always make a new shortcut, by going to a specific progs .exe, right-click and choose "make shortcut" .... then it's just a matter of cut & paste :)

Originally posted by TopCat
I think desktop icons use your memory..right? If that's the case, is it better to not have too many? I have about 29 now.

Yes and no. Anything on your screen uses VIDEO memory, which is *usually* not the same as regular SYSTEM memory. The exception is some cheap low end motherboards with everything integrated often share memory. My parents machine is that way. I can set the BIOS to take 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 megs of system memory and use it for video memory. Most computers aren't this way though.

Anyway, all things on your screen are read from video memory, but regular memory writes them to the video card.

The only times you really need a lot of video memory is when you crank up the resolution, number of colors, or have a graphics intense game or image editing (photoshop, autocad, etc).

A simple way to figure out how much memory you need is to multiply the pixel depth (2, 4, 8, 16, 24, or 32) x screen resolution, and that gives you the total amount of bytes you need on your video card.

For example, I run 1024x768x32 bpp (bits per pixel) at home and I have a 64 MB video card.

1024x768 = 786,432 pixels on the screen. Multiply that by 32 bits per pixel = 25,165,824 bits, divide that by 8 (8 bits = 1 byte) = 3,145,728 bytes required, or more formally, 3 megabytes of video memory are required to drive the monitor to that resolution.

The exception: image editors or high end games. Many big games require lots of video memory for textures, stenciling, buffering, and god knows what else.

You don't have to have this even if you play games, but you really should. If you don't do anything real graphics intense, even a basic little 4 MB video card is usually does the trick.

My g/fs card is a basic little ATI card with 8 meg of memory. She doesn't play 3D games. Lots of solitare and things like that. She could get by with a 2 meg card. My grandmother has an old Intel AGP card with 2 meg of memory. Plenty for her.

It just depends on your needs.

Originally posted by Shakey
You should be able to delete the shortcuts left on your desktop that you don't want anymore. The shortcut in your folder will not point to the old shortcut, but to the original program.

So in other words I can delete the original on the desktop once I've created a shortcut for it in another folder and it will be as if though I had the original program.

Yup. That should be the case. If you want to test it though, just delete them, but don't empty your recycle bin. If things don't wor the way you want, then you can always restore them.

That is a lot of information, aaron! THANKS!! :) I think I even understood some. :p