No Mrs D, don't just delete any icons, i definatly agree with that, you have to remove them from control panel, by useing the add remove program.

Well i just phoned up a mate [pc pro] to get the right answers to our little discusion,
He said " cleaning down your desktop thats full of useless icons you will only find a minimal increase in performance in the PC's that are around these days, he said going back to the old win 95 days & 486 machines, it was pretty significent then, when the old 486 machines were battling to run Win 95.

Of course, i then asked about closing down some programs to improve bandwidth, he said no, its got nothing to do with bandwidth at all, closing down programs will increase boot up times only.

So cleaning up all your desktop icons, won't make much of a differance performance wise its only minimal ,other than keeping you desktop nice and tidy and more easier to work with thats all

So thats the finish from this end, i found it an interesting discussion, so
thanks Refinnery.
all the best
Brian