On Jun 2, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Charles Martin wrote: > 3. The Desktop is constantly redrawn. The more stuff you put out > there*, the slower the machine gets and the faster the directory > gets corrupted. I would be really interested to see any citations that you can offer for the notion that putting things on the desktop can result in directory corruption. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________