I know a way to speed up your computer significantly. When you
start your workday, you will marvel at how quickly it boots to
the desktop. When you open a previously slow-launching program,
you will be amazed at how much faster it loads. When you double-
click on a spreadsheet, Excel will open almost instantaneously.
All that is needed to experience this computing nirvana is a
solid-state drive (SSD). Most likely, Windows, along with all of
your programs and data, is stored on a traditional hard disk
drive (HDD) deep in your computer. HDDs store their information
on spinning metal platters. When loading apps or data, a small
arm, reminiscent of a record player’s arm, moves back and forth
over the spinning disks reading, or writing, information. How
long this takes depends on many things, such as how fast the
disks spin and how well organized the data is spread over the
platters. Older (slower) or poorly organized (fragmented) disks
can significantly and negatively impact your computing
experience. The system w