music and photos

When you have a lot of large files on your computer, whether they be photos,videos,music,whatever, yes it can slow things down. Anytime the computer is searching through the hard drive for things (99 percent of the time) it will be scanning through these large files and slow down. Best to get a larger hard drive and post these files somewhere. The photos can be uploaded to photobucket or someplace similar. The music files could be uploaded to youtube if you can post some pictures with them

It depends on your hard drive write/read speed, on your RAM amount, etc. If you are running out of disc space, I would suggest you to record them to few DVDs or other external media storage device, such as USB flash memory. That way you will keep your fotos/music securely at your hands.

In general if you have say 5 or more GB free on your hard drive that is 80 GB then you wan't see much of an effect on the speed. Most speed problems are caused by some spyware or adware infection which can really decrease the speed and which can be very hard to get rid of. You can pick these bad things up just by visiting some seemingly innocent websites. I got a really bad one once just because my computer was on and connected to the Internet, it always is since I have cable, even though the browser was not open and I was not using the computer for about an hour.

You could try moving your music and photos to CDs to free up more space... You can still easily access them from the CDs whenever you want to as keeping them on the PCs occupies space plus you probably do not use each file everyday. I did this a year or two ago and saw a significant improvement in my PCs performance and I am due to do it again. Helps to have a permanent marker handy to mark the CDs or you could end up having the extra work of having to play each CD to find out what's on it..

even i have loads of photos and videos in my system and also the music but i dont think it will slow down the speed of the computer but only thing is it takes a lot of space at your computer. computer slow downs only when softwares we load doesnot support the operating sytems and everytime i think due to some software installation only the processing speed becomes slow. what i do is always gather photos on computer and then make a video or movie and store it in a disc and then i just remove them from my computer. i do this to secure them as if i need to format or so then i will have to work more in order to save my data.

For sure big files slow a bit your computer, especially when you have not much memory then you can really FEEL it, because when you "walk" on your hd computer scan the files, load it. Hm 10.1 mb a music file? isn't it a bit too much? didn't you never think about convert the big files and resize them to quite hm normal sizes? 5 minutes song should be like 4/5 mb in 192kbps/256kbps. Of course when you convert it to wma(windows media audio) the files become even much ligher, from 4/5 mb to 2.5/3.5. When there is no way to convert them or you don't like do it(it cost a bit time)somebody mentioned that already. External hard drive 500GB for 50 euro or something on ebay should be a good solution. Well upload it all to some web kind a hard disk is also good solution something like rapidshare or 4shared but only when you internet speed is very high, hm photobucket is only for photos I think? . Or maybe just memorystick like 16GB. And if you don't like to buy something, to use web hd ... try to make more folders, because when all your files are in one folder then it takes awhile to read it for you pc. When you files are really like 10.1 or more then just be sure in one folder you have something like up to 30 songs and not more, then it takes less much pressure for memory than you have it there a lot of 300 songs. Cheers !

yes they do take up lots of room, why i went out a got myself external hard drive to keep all my music and photos on.

Get an external hard drive.. Plug it in.. Copy the files to there.. That should free up room on your normal disk.. Have a nice day..