iCongestion
I've been doing some much needed maintainence on my PC this weekend, cleaning up old programs, backing up and saving off old data. The PC/DOS/Windows milieu was never built to support powerusers like m'self. :-)
Still, it's amazing what a little poking around can reveal.
I decided to run a program that would scan my hard drive for icon files. On PC's, icons are found in individual files (.ico), or bundled into a .dll or .exe file. I scanned them all. The final result?
25,255 icons. Seriously. No buillshit. 25,255. And this was *after* I deleted a bunch of old programs!
Many are duplicates, some are clearly from old and foreign versions of programs. There were icons for areas of applications I didn't even know about.
I used SnagIt's scroll-window capture tool to show you a little sample. Click here. This is about 1/5 of the total found, *not* including icons I made myself.
I've calculated that these is roughly 250MB of my disk space. Not a lot in the greater scheme, especially with today's cheap storage but still...there has got to be a better way of managing this fundamental aspect of computer usage. Icons aren't going away, but they could at least tell some of the understudies to go home until they're needed.
Still, it's amazing what a little poking around can reveal.
I decided to run a program that would scan my hard drive for icon files. On PC's, icons are found in individual files (.ico), or bundled into a .dll or .exe file. I scanned them all. The final result?
25,255 icons. Seriously. No buillshit. 25,255. And this was *after* I deleted a bunch of old programs!
Many are duplicates, some are clearly from old and foreign versions of programs. There were icons for areas of applications I didn't even know about.
I used SnagIt's scroll-window capture tool to show you a little sample. Click here. This is about 1/5 of the total found, *not* including icons I made myself.
I've calculated that these is roughly 250MB of my disk space. Not a lot in the greater scheme, especially with today's cheap storage but still...there has got to be a better way of managing this fundamental aspect of computer usage. Icons aren't going away, but they could at least tell some of the understudies to go home until they're needed.
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