Depending on what do you mean by "going bad".
just so you know, the slowest component of the computer is it's hard drive (because it's mechanical) , therefore, a bad hard drive will probably slow things down.
the computer can become very slow
You could burn the photos to a disc, or copy them to an external drive such as a USB drive or an external hard drive, and then delete the photos from your computer. And if your computer is still slow, you can use a tool like CCleaner to help clean up your computer and make it faster. It seems unlikely that too many photos would slow down your computer unless they took up all the hard drive space, check for malware/viruses.
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Cleaning up your computer's hard drive can make your computer work faster. Make sure to clear all cookies and defragment the hard drive. If you do this that should make your computer move a lot faster.
When you buy new cameras, it may be wise to purchase external hard drives as well. After all, you are going to want to take a lot of photographs with these cameras, and you are going to want to store them on your computer. If you put too many large photos on your normal hard drive, the computer will slow down tremendously. You need to store them on external drives to keep the computer working.
You may have to many programs up for your computer to handle, or it can be you memory all together, This can slow you down because the hard drive have more to scan, (Memory is stored in a file on a hard drive) changing the overall speed of your computer loading and speed.
Having a 1 TB hard drive makes it possible to save one's personal documents in the external hard drive rather than inside the computer. It can save countless movies and music files without cluttering up the computer itself and making it run slow.
The two solutions for a slow computer are: 1. Upgrade your hardware - add RAM, get a larger hard drive 2. Perform regular maintenance using a comprehensive optimization software suite.
It will not slow down your computer, but the process of writing the file to your drive is slower because it is normally slower to write straight to your hard disk than to your flash drive. So it may take longer to download the file.
After a sustained period of internet browsing, a computers' hard drive can be overwhelmed with spyware, which negatively affects performance. All browsers have a method for clearing the cache of internet files on the hard drive, and doing so may speed up a slow computer. Over time, files on the hard drive become fragmented. A defragmentation program (there are plenty of free ones available on the internet) can help speed things up.
Transfer using usb flash drive..very easy..can be slow on older computers