I would never store anything critical on my desktop. Links to those files maybe, but I have repaired to many computers that got corrupted and if windows is reinstalled the desktop contents can get lost. Windows 7 is better about this problem, but it is still a good habit to put your critical files in a separate folder on another partition or in a folder off your C drive and to backup all those files to another device. I'm sure that other folks have other opinions, but my experience is what I go by. I have read lots of posts over the years about people losing all their sequences because of hard drive corruption, so be sure to back them up to another device.