I got a dell laptop and recently it got a lot of viruses, so I had to reformat the hard drive. I talked to the Indian dell tech support guy and he said that I shouldn't download things directly to the desktop.
he mentioned something about the desktop being like temporary storage or something, he was not really clear about it.
anyway, I do have a few questions
- is it okay to save downloaded files and documents directly to the desktop?
- if not, where should I put those kinds of files and stand alone programs that I copy to my computer?
- how is storing files on the desktop different from storing them to your documents folder or directly to the hard drive (C:) ?
Best Answer
Unfortunately, this is the kind of urban legend nonsense that's all too typical from level 1 support folks. The desktop is nothing more than a shortcut to a location on your hard drive and is no different than any other folder.