Simple Mac speed-up tip for desktop pack rats

If you tend to pack a lot of folders and files on your desktop, and if you've noticed your Mac is acting a little sluggish, I've found a simple tip at MacOSXHints to bring some zip back to your machine: get rid of your desktop icons. As many as you can, at least. The reason boils down to the way OS X treats desktop icons, and as it stands, they apparently can eat up a decent chunk of your CPU usage, and they cite using a developer tool to monitor some processes as proof.

I neither have the developer tools installed, nor do I keep a lot of icons on my desktop anyway, so I can't really test or verify this. If you only have 10 or so icons on your desktop you probably don't have to worry about this tip. But if you're one of those people who have nearly every document, image, project, bookmark and folder living on your desktop as if it's the only directory in your Home folder, you might want to consider cleaning up your act. If anyone tries this, feel free to post your experience for the rest of the class.