More hard drive used up mean more slower performance of computer?

[Vigor]

Just wondering if this is true I installed a bunch of games and downloaded a lot of music about 2gb and when I first bought this computer it ran faster than it does now. I'm using 29.6/87GB. Does it matter by any chance?

 

[Cromewell]

It's probably slowed down by all the stuff you've installed since you got it. Disabling anything that runs at startup that you don't need is a good place to start. You can check what starts up by running (start->run) msconfig.

It could also by mal/spyware. Doing a scan is probably a good idea.

 

[tlarkin]

The only time you ever hit a huge performance hit on HD space if you are running really low on it and you no longer have any space for virtual memory/swap file.

Generally speaking as long as you keep about 10% of your HD space free you should be golden