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Speed of Computer?

Iceman12321Iceman12321 Member Posts: 992
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Newbie Question::=^)::
Thought I'd ask the experts on this subject. anyways, I was curious when you download programs and games, your hard drive will have less and less space, and I was curious whether or not the computer, itself, would become slower and slower. Basically, a computer's speediness comes from the amount of RAM it has, correct?
After asking my dad, he said that it wouldnt become slower, but only if more than one program were to be up and running. I dont need any technical answers, but basically I'm just trying to find out whether or not the speed of the computer will decrease as I install and download more and more things to my computer. Thanks::=^*::

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  • FlipmodeFlipmode Member Posts: 224

    Yes it will, mostly at the start-up.

    As the registry fills up in windows, it takes longer and longer to load everything and stuff will slow down. Anything can alter speeds. So if you have too many things running at once, or you're downloading so fast and creating a .rar file of 3gigs, its gonna get slow.

    In other words. Yes, it will get slower. Not even more ram will save you from slowing down. Cleaning your registry and start-up files will keep your computer from not getting too slow, but it still will.

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  • EPDJEPDJ Member Posts: 130

    or you can just restrict...

    open up msconfig and disable all the startup files...

    makes it a bit faster... ( for me i think... a lot less to load up... i just keep aim and msn on startup... )

  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460


    Originally posted by Iceman12321

    Newbie Question::=^)::
    Thought I'd ask the experts on this subject. anyways, I was curious when you download programs and games, your hard drive will have less and less space, and I was curious whether or not the computer, itself, would become slower and slower. Basically, a computer's speediness comes from the amount of RAM it has, correct?
    After asking my dad, he said that it wouldnt become slower, but only if more than one program were to be up and running. I dont need any technical answers, but basically I'm just trying to find out whether or not the speed of the computer will decrease as I install and download more and more things to my computer. Thanks::=^*::

    if you're really scared about that (it's not that big of deal) just defrag once every month or so

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  • Iceman12321Iceman12321 Member Posts: 992

    dont worry. I have many other things to worry about.was just curious.
    thanks all for the replies though.

  • methane47methane47 Member CommonPosts: 3,701

    Defragging your harddrive is good for your computer
    But with the size and speed of harddrives today you will not really see a slowdown due to fragmented harddrives... Well Unless it's like 50% fragmented then you're in trouble

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