Steam making computer slow

Working fine for me.

you were downloading, it costs internet

Well, then your computer might not be so good.

Since it went slow when writing a Dota 2 download to disk I'm going to assume your hard drive is massively fragmented. Defragment it.

Lately when Steam downloads anything it has also been dropping my computer to a crawl. Not sure why. Never did it before.

I feel your pain.

When start up my PC and Steam starts updating something, everything's slow until I pause the download/the download is finished.

Thanks for all your great answers!

Happens to me, when something is updating on Steam your computer will/might lag.

made this just for you :D

its because Dota2 is updating. let it finish, or pause it.

I sometimes get a bit laggy when it applies the update, which does use computers resources, but that takes only seconds/minutes and goes back to normal afterwards.

Every day :P

I cant play Steam games when i am online at Community :3
Community connection uses too much memory and processor.

Yep, same here, Dota 2 update start-->pc slow up, even freeze up sometimes -.-

I don't have Dota 2 and this never happened to me .

working fine,pc never gets slow from steam...altho i got to complain for something...aah what was it? aah yes the steam browser is slow..i mean when you open the store page it takes some time..then to jump from page to page....

My computer slows down every time i'm downloading/updating any of my games on steam. I don't know why this is happening. Don't worry it's not only you.

If it did the update with checking out all the files for the game first, it's fairly understandable. When I start TF2 in windowed mode (no idea how I did that in the first place, but I ain't complaining), it takes up less RAM than having Steam validate the file integrity for it.

I keep Steam in Small Mode, makes it use less resources. You could try that out and see what happens.