Sharanam Shah’s blog

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.  

To Err is human, to forgive is not a COMPANY policy.    

The road to success - Is always under construction.  

Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk. 

In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.  

All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive or fattening.  

Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak.  

Everyone has a scheme of getting rich!.. Which never works.  

If at first you don't succeed?. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried. 

You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.  

Anything dropped on the floor will roll over to the most inaccessible corner.  

As soon as you mention something, if it is good, it is taken!. If it is bad, it happens!!!

He who has the gold, makes the rules - Murphy's golden rule.

If you come early, the bus is late. If you come late, the bus is still late!!!.  

Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somewhere else at a cheaper rate.  

When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions.

If you have paper, you don't have a pen!!! If you have a pen, you don't have paper!!! if you have both, no one calls.  

Especially for engg. Students. If you have bunked the class, the professor has taken attendance.  

You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming.  

The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom.  

After a long wait for bus no.20, two 20 number buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.  

If your exam is tomorrow, there will be a power cut tonight.  

Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker.

Refreshing the desktop is perhaps the biggest computer myth among all Windows users.

I have seen several computer users around me doing tons of refreshes thinking that they are speeding up the process.

It's not known who first discovered this remarkably worthless trick and what he achieved from it, but it just spread.

Most new users learn this trick from other new users without caring to know what it does.

Some do it devotedly just because others do it, while some others have various weird explanations for it.

A few of them assume that it refreshes the RAM, while some others believe that doing it will somehow keep their PCs running smooth and easy.

Time to throw some light on it.

What does a desktop refresh actually do?

Refreshing the desktop simply redraws the icons on the desktop. That's it!

It does not:

Refresh the RAM

Clean the PC

This means while your computer is busy with something you are just giving it something else do with something that is already going on. Instead of making things fast, you are delaying the processing as now it also needs to re-draw the whole display.

Refreshing the desktop has absolutely no effect on the working or performance of the computer.

So why is the tool there?

Sometimes when you bring some changes to the desktop icons, the change doesn't get reflected instantly. In such cases, refreshing the desktop becomes necessary to bring the change to effect.

This is what refresh is for. It is to re-display the desktop. Refresh has the very same function when done in Explorer.

Seventh Raine