Will putting things on a Flash Drive help my computer run faster?

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Over the years I have collected tons of "items" that I do not want to delete. But I feel these items are taking up too much memory, which in turn is causing my computer to run extremely slow. I can't even play games without major lagging!

I was wondering, if I moved all of these items to a large flash drive would that help to make my computer run faster? I'm 100% sure I have no viruses or such things.

Thanks.
 
You should invest in an external hard drive. :D I have the same problem as you. I moved all of my pix, music, and videos onto my external hard drive to make sure I don't bog my comp down.

If you can free up a lot of space on your computer, you should notice it running a lot smoother.
 
if it's large documents maybe
but this is just space on the hard drive so it might just make your apps load faster and your docs open quicker.. it won't make internet load faster or things like that
just make sure when you move them to the flash drive you delete them from the computer
you might want to look into external hard drives
 
In short, NO. Removing things from your hard drive will only speed up your hard drive if you're using an outdated file system. If you have Windows XP or better installed on your system then removing these files will have no significant impact. (Load times of specfic files maybe increased by a maximum of 1-2 seconds, but that's really pushing it)

Defragmenting your hard drive WILL improve performance. You can do this with the tools built into Windows by opening My Computer and right-clicking on the drive you wish to defragment. In the "Tools" menu you will find the "Defragment" option. I suggest you go there now and analyze your hard drive, checking specifically the percentage of fragmentation.

It is better, however, to use a third party utility such as IOBit's Smart Defrag (that's what I use) to do the work of defragmenting. Use it to defragment your hard drive when you go to bed tonight. In the morning restart the computer and you should see SIGNIFICANT speed improvements. In the future, Smart Defrag will run in the background, keeping your hard drive from getting seriously fragmented again to prevent this in the future. The software is free for personal use. You can easily disable the software when running games but I haven't noticed it affect performance at all (it automatically stops working when your computer begins working hard.)

I should explain that the things stored on your computer are not stored in your computer's memory, they are stored on your hard drive. Memory, more accurately referred to as Random-Access Memory (RAM), is unaffected by the volume of information stored on your hard drive.
 
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