How I fixed my slow laptop in under 10 minutes

I was about to throw my laptop out the window because it was crawling, but all it needed was a quick uninstall of some old software. I freed up over 20 GB just by removing a few random programs I never used. Has anyone else had luck speeding up their machines with some scrappy fixes?

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I’ve had luck with uninstalling antivirus programs too! It can really help with speed. Have you tried checking for background apps that run on startup?

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