A safer Windows slowdown triage: 30 minutes before you reinstall
When a Windows machine becomes slow, reinstalling the operating system is often treated as the first move. It should usually be much later in the process. A reinstall changes many variables at once, creates avoidable recovery work, and can hide the real cause: a failing disk, too little free space, an aggressive startup application, an incomplete update, thermal throttling, or a workload that has…
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