Why does having more things downloaded on my computer slow it down?
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Normally just downloading files and data shouldn’t affect how fast your computer works.
Unless you are downloading so much that your hard-drive is nearly full and doesn’t have enough room left for ordinary operations it shouldn’t matter. 500MB of free space or 500GB of free space on your drive don’t really matter.
In older days you could run into trouble due to fragmentation where the data you were accessing was all over the drive, but that is much less of an issue today and really shouldn’t have any noticeable effect for you.
What does slow down your computer is installed applications especially ones that run in the background all the time.
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