Will too many items on my desktop make my computer start up slower?

randomchick: Will too many items on my desktop make my computer start up slower?
I like to save my work to my desktop where it’s easy to find instead of searching through a ton of files to find it each time. I have many files on my desktop right now. Will this make my computer run slower?

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Answer by Nex
No.

Answer by Soultrappa
Not exactly – it depends on whether they are links/shortcuts to your work or the actual files.
It is all of the stuff that start up with your machine that will make it run slower – things that are shown in the task manager and things which are not.
Having the files on your desktop will not cause that much difference as it is the same as having an explorer window open.

Answer by :~| UnKnOwN_SiNg3R |~
no sweetheart. its nothing with the startup . startup is basically disturbed by the softwares you have installed. if they are set to start on windows bootup. then they may slow down your startup. otherwise items on desktop do not affect your startup.

if you want to see the programs in startup.

Start >> Run >> msconfig >> a dialogue will open. check the option called “Startup” there you can find which software applications are already set to start with the operating system’s bootup.

Answer by Jason Z
Having items on the desktop will not make your computer slower. Open items that eat up memory, such as multiple net browsers/tabs, documents and programs will make your computer run slower. but if they are just sitting on your desktop, you have nothing to fear.

Answer by Brad
Well, yes, actually. However, the lag will only be on startup, and will be a minimal difference. I have a ton of stuff on my desktop as well, I tried trimming it down to get a few seconds faster startup. But, its not worth the trouble. I’d rather wait a second or two more and have the convenience of everything at my fingertips.

Answer by Awesome PC guy!
I have found that if you have large files on your desktop then it sometimes slows startup down. But like others said, it your startup programs that slow it down the most.

go to start+r > msconfig startup tab.
then you can see all the startup programs.