Performance concerns with using Windows Desktop to store documents 1

[whitewater7]

Does a large number files on the desktop: hinder performance?

Our client base is using Dell PCs with 2 gigs of RAM. We have the pagefile set at a custom size of 2048/4096.

I have been warning people that the desktop is not a good place to keep documents, and recommending that they keep the docs on a network drive which would get backed up. They could then make shortcuts back to the desktop.

What would be the recommended maximum total size of the Desktop folder, based on our settings? Also, are the documents in the desktop folder in a more volatile place than if they were kept in a folder on the hard drive?

 

[goombawaho]

Time to give it up. You're almost as stubborn as I am!!!

 

[Sympology]

Back to Topic.


1) If on about "Windows Desktop" their is an issue. That is it's stored under a user profile. Lets face it, whats more likely to get corrupted. Root of C/D or a user profile. I've properbly suffered several corrupted profiles for each drive failure. Granted you can create a new profile and copy them across.
2) Now if they are on about a Desktop PC. Windows XP only support 10 concurrent connections. Therefore there may well be a "slowdown" if 11 people try to access it . The 11th will have to wait until one drops off. Thats why you have fille and Print servers, to allow more connection. Plus servers tend to have better backups / RAID / Redundant Power / Memory (ECC) / UPS / multiple NIC's and on and on and on and.........

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

[goombawaho]

That's a good point about the profile being corrupted, but that wasn't the original question.

And where did anyone mention sharing of files on the desktop???

 

[Sympology]

Sorry, my mistake. Really should stop reading several threads at once

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

[strongm]

>The manufacturer of the Product "Windows" recommended it for maintenance and for performance

Ah - not all content of MSDN or the Help and Support site is written or provided by Microsoft. It contains 3rd party resources. Indeed, Microsoft specifically say about the 'tips' in both articles on the help and support site that you link to that

Microsoft is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in these articles

And, as already established, it has got nothing to do with XP

 

[goombawaho]

Well, I think maybe we have exhausted all the possible responses regarding this topic.