After a good period of time any system will see a good build up of junk to put things in that sense where the drive along with the registry need a good cleanup. Another thing that often helps is reducing the number of items in the startup group found in the msconfig utility. Anything not video or sound related and non essential can be disabled from automatically loading up along with Windows to help free up more resoiurces and often see Windows runs smoother.
You simply type msconfig in at the Run prompt right off of the Start menu and press enter or click the OK button to bring that up and proceed to the startup tab. If you decide to go further into the services tab make sure to check off the "hide all microsoft services" box to avoid disabling any essential background services for Windows otherwise mixed in with the rest.
Anything else can be re-enabled later if found needed like a service for the antivirus program installed and other things. Disabling an essential service however will likely see Windows stall. oops! Once any change is made it will take a restart to see that go into effect where you then place a check on the "do not show again" upon reboot and seeing the msconfig message popup. That's a minor annoyance.
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