Curious question.
The internet seems to disagree. From my research the conclusion I drew was that any shortcut icon on the desktop (that is, anything contained somewhere other than C:\users\[user]\desktop) is not loaded into ram since it is contained in storage while programs and files that are located on the desktop are loaded into ram upon startup.
Do I have this right?
This guy seemed to have the best explanation..(TIP #6):
http://web.archive.org/web/20040625103325/http://www.algonquincollege.com/its/support/pc/windows_efficiency.html
The internet seems to disagree. From my research the conclusion I drew was that any shortcut icon on the desktop (that is, anything contained somewhere other than C:\users\[user]\desktop) is not loaded into ram since it is contained in storage while programs and files that are located on the desktop are loaded into ram upon startup.
Do I have this right?
This guy seemed to have the best explanation..(TIP #6):
http://web.archive.org/web/20040625103325/http://www.algonquincollege.com/its/support/pc/windows_efficiency.html