Win 7 Desktop Icon Loading

[node]

REALLY picky niggle here, wondering if there's a fix.

I moved my desktop icons (lots of 256x256 game icons) to my SSD so they appear much faster when windows boots. The silly thing is, they do this, but then I hear the HDD access the .exe files for some reason, and they all reload again much slower!

I don't know if there's any way to stop this, and it's not the end of the world, but seems like a bit of a stupid way for Win 7 to do things - it's already loaded the icons, why do it again when it looks at the .exe on my HDD?

[node]

Er, might just have answered my own geeky question! http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5164407.html

Let me know if any of you know a different solution though, it does seem odd that it loads them twice at boot up.

[n1blo]

Are you saying that once you've PC has booted completely your hearing the HDD thrashing straight after you click?

Not to patronise you but;
Is there a chance you've only moved the shortcut to the file?
Most of my desktop icons are shortcuts, as the real file(s) are located elsewhere.


Edit: I don't think I read your post right :o