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SvennoJ 20 hours ago
Zkuq said:
SvennoJ said:

My desktop more reflects a history of my life, as I always carry my desktop folder over when switching computers with easy access to pictures and documents going back to the late 90s. Hence my desktop is full of folders. My desktop folder is 142 GB altogether.

For what it's worth, supposedly if you're using Windows, having a really large amount of files on your desktop or directories under it can really slow down your PC. If you're fine, that's great, but if you've been having unexpectedly poor performance, that might be why.

Yeah I know, I turned off 'quick find' or whatever it's called years ago. Background processes that keep on indexing stuff, disabled.

Total Files Listed:
32075 File(s) 141,908,181,955 bytes

I don't need windows continuously indexing all that lol.



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Zkuq 19 hours ago
SvennoJ said:
Zkuq said:

For what it's worth, supposedly if you're using Windows, having a really large amount of files on your desktop or directories under it can really slow down your PC. If you're fine, that's great, but if you've been having unexpectedly poor performance, that might be why.

Yeah I know, I turned off 'quick find' or whatever it's called years ago. Background processes that keep on indexing stuff, disabled.

Total Files Listed:
32075 File(s) 141,908,181,955 bytes

I don't need windows continuously indexing all that lol.

OK, great that you managed to figure it out already!



SvennoJ 14 hours ago
Zkuq said:
SvennoJ said:

Yeah I know, I turned off 'quick find' or whatever it's called years ago. Background processes that keep on indexing stuff, disabled.

Total Files Listed:
32075 File(s) 141,908,181,955 bytes

I don't need windows continuously indexing all that lol.

OK, great that you managed to figure it out already!

Yeah exactly for the reason you said. At some point over 99% of the CPU and RAM were in use by Windows indexing my desktop. Running slow is an understatement haha. I moved my desktop to my bigger HDD to make room on my SSD for stuff that needs faster access, then windows suddenly got incredibly slow. Opening a folder to see thumbnails would practically grind everything to a halt, thumbnails appearing 1 every few seconds or not at all. All for quick access? Completely the opposite. Thankfully task manager is there to figure out the culprits :)