Now, this computer is used by 7 people, mostly just 3 though.

 

 

 

Most songs aren't even used. Does having all these songs slow down the computer?

Wow.. That's roughly 10.65GB of music. If they music isn't used I'd suggest deleting and making room for other things. The fuller your hard drive is the slower your computer is. Also run your disk defragmentor and antispyware software if you're looking to speed up your computer.

Depends how big your harddrive is, and how much free space it's got. If it's getting above 80-90%, it's time to start thinking of other ways to store your data. If you don't listen to your music that often, you can store them on DVDs or cds, usually as mp3 files, and then just whack it in the drive when you want to listen to it. So go buy 3 dvds or a 20 pack of cds and away you go.

 

 

 

If your music isn't compressed, you can try that - 192 kbps mp3 is plenty good enough for most uses.

It can cause more fragmentation, and when your harddrive is above 85% full most filesystems (NTFS and Fat32 included) significantly slow.

Heh, 7 people and you only share roughly 10GB of music. I have over 26GB of music just for me :-w

 

 

 

But yeah, hard drive useage wont slow down the computer unless your running low on space, about 85% or higher can cause problems as Diminished2b said.

 

 

 

Defragmentation can help speed up your system a little because it arranges fragmented files back into order so it makes the task of finding files easier, thus making your computer that little bit more responsive.

 

 

 

My suggestion is if you are running dangerously low on HDD space, go out and buy a second drive of equal or larger size and use that one for MP3/Video/Data that isnt vital to your computer and use it to store things on.