stackyFACTSYour cluttered screen is just a giant bulletin board full of meaningless sticky notes pointing elsewhere.
Your cluttered screen is just a giant bulletin board full of meaningless sticky notes pointing elsewhere. The colorful icons on your desktop do not actually contain any software data. They are simply tiny instruction files telling the operating system exactly where the real program is buried deep inside the storage drive. Deleting the icon does absolutely nothing to the massive application secretly lurking in your program files.
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