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Technology → All those little icons of your documents...

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Poll: How do you imagine the icons on your computer?

The icons ARE my files. And if my screen is full, my computer runs slowly.
1 11.11%
The icons are my files, but I know that they aren't that size on my hard drive.
1 11.11%
The icons represent my files. I know they're actually a mess of data, but icons make more sense.
4 44.44%
The icons are just pointers to some spot on a hard disk, which lists the clusters...
3 33.33%

Voters: 9

1. Cat333Pokémon said on March 8, 2013, 08:12:53 PM (-08:00)

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I'm actually pretty curious, how do you folks imagine all the little icons on your computer?

2. Magmaster12 said on March 8, 2013, 08:14:01 PM (-08:00)

Rayquaza
4,872 posts

Like the icons as they are regularly shown.

3. Cat333Pokémon said on March 8, 2013, 08:18:31 PM (-08:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Magmaster12 View Post
Like the icons as they are regularly shown.
I hate the fact vBulletin posts the thread before you can even start typing the poll options.

4. Magmaster12 said on March 8, 2013, 08:40:13 PM (-08:00)

Rayquaza
4,872 posts

Okay now I understand, well maybe not fully.

I usually just have them listed as small icons in order by time since the most recent file is usually the one I'm looking for.

5. Twiggy said on March 12, 2013, 01:13:59 AM (-07:00)

Kyurem
2,098 posts

I sometimes like to think that these icons are my files even though they are just a representation of data on my disk drive.

Even then, I know that it's important that I think like that, because they certainly aren't just shortcuts of any kind. Delete them? There goes.

6. Cat333Pokémon said on March 12, 2013, 01:25:19 AM (-07:00)

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I'm glad nobody here has voted for the first option. I know a few (mostly older) folks who think that having a cluttered desktop is the reason for a computer running slowly and simply filing them away to My Documents will make it faster.

7. Twiggy said on March 12, 2013, 01:30:25 AM (-07:00)

Kyurem
2,098 posts

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat333Pokémon View Post
I'm glad nobody here has voted for the first option. I know a few (mostly older) folks who think that having a cluttered desktop is the reason for a computer running slowly and simply filing them away to My Documents will make it faster.
It's usually background processes that are the real culprit when it comes to things like that.

I think I'm a bit weird for picking the second choice at the end...

8. Cat333Pokémon said on March 12, 2013, 02:04:02 AM (-07:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twiggy View Post
I think I'm a bit weird for picking the second choice at the end...
Yeah, I think I worded it a little oddly, but it's this: not falling for the fallacy that having a large number of icons eats up more space on your hard drive than having a few, regardless of their content. (Don't get into allocation units.) I have personally seen this before, too.

9. Twiggy said on March 12, 2013, 03:25:06 AM (-07:00)

Kyurem
2,098 posts

Still, thinking these icons as your actual files might make you treasure them. Love them.

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