Will downloading music slow down your computer?

Answer 1

If one takes the necessary precautions against viruses and Trojan horses, there is really little harm in downloading off the internet or a CD. The only caveat there is that you need to be aware of your hard drive capacity and not fill it up completely. Leave some 5GB or so of open territory - useful for file swapping and disk caching, virtual memory, etc.

Answer 2

Downloading slows your computer down, because it is taking it a large size of your hard drive if you take lots of space on your hard drive it will make your computer a longer time to "find" something on the hard drive.

Answer 3

I think so. When you are downloading movies from the web, it takes much resources on your computer, so there are less memory and resources for other programs running. As a result, your computer slows down.
For me and my roomates, we always download movies when we don't use the computer for running other programs.

Anyway, you are recommended to do some system cleanup and optimization work to your computer. Without hardware update, you can increase your computer speed too. Refer to the related link, it should help!

Answer 4

Downloading programs does not, in itself, slow down a computer. RUNNING programs, especially many of them at a time, and more importantly, resource-hungry programs, will slow a computer down. If you download and install 100 different applications that are all designed to do the same thing - for example, enhancing your experience with your web browser by adding toolbars - surely your computer will have to process the instructions given to it by all of these additional toolbars. However, if you close the toolbar-laden browser, and open a different browser without the toolbars installed (or re-open the same on in safe mode, for that matter), your computer does not have all of those extra programs to deal with at once. They are saved to your hard drive, yes, but your computer isn't actively doing anything but storing their critical data, which doesn't cost you active system resources.

However, if one is not careful when they download programs, one might be downloading programs that set themselves up so that they run in the background when you start your computer up, sometimes even without your knowledge. Some of these are legitimate programs, such as AOL Instant Messenger, or your AntiVirus software, which has a good reason to be always running, but some of these programs might by viruses, spyware, or even some bogus advertiser's software attempting to sell you something. All of these, since they're designed to run whether you opened them yourself or not, WILL slow your computer down, at least until you close them and remove them from the startup programs.

Answer 5

If you take care of PC maintenance then installing programs on your computer will not make your computer slow.

For proper computer maintenance download and install Reginout System Utilities.

Answer 6

yes. depends on your pc's specs and the number of songs you are downloading.

Answer 7

It really depends on what it is and how big it is but, if you have at least 10GB left your ok

Answer 8

Nope, keep downloading!