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Is having a wallpaper, desktop icons and auto-hide taskbar a waste of cpu resources?

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Possible Duplicate: if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows? There was a time when PC magazines used to advise not having a wallpaper because it consumed precious memory and CPU cycles. I have a Core2Duo processor, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD and a display of 1440x90…

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No, it will not "waste a lot of CPU cycles". Displaying your wallpaper is primarily the video card's job, not the CPUs. Auto-hiding the taskbar does use CPU, but it's only a "waste" if your computer slows down to a crawl while the bar is hiding or r…

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