I checked if my computer meets the requirements for Windows 11 and I'm surprised that it does not. Computer has a I7- 3770 @ 3.40 CPU and I thought that would be able to handle Windows 11 fine....

Thank you for the very quick response. Now I read Windows 11 is coming out and I hope I can just upgrade to it without losing the computers new found speed.

Finally built up enough courage to install the SSD. Thanks to the great instructions I received on this forum everything went well and the computer is working great. I went from 5 minute boot times...

Okay, I think I finally get it. Thank you for explaining it so well. I'm very appreciative of the help from this forum. There's a wealth of knowledge here.

GPT is another new thing to me. I reviewed the difference and GPT looks like the best option. When I start the install of windows and select GPT, will it then ask how many partitions I want? The SSD...

Thank you to those who responded to my questions. I'm going to follow the advise given here and do a clean install. I've read several articles on how to do the clean install but it is not clear if I...

Is there a big difference in a clean install vs resetting? Seems like the clean install is far more complicated but if there is a substantial performance difference, I would go with the clean...

My 10 year old HP desktop is running extremely slow. Perhaps due to the progression of upgrades from Win 7 to Win 8 and now Win 10. Takes almost five minutes to boot up and is slow opening programs....

I've tried the above suggestions and nothing has changed. Startup takes about 4 minutes and after that the drive stays at almost 100% usage for another 10 minutes. I guess I'll just have to live with...

I had no problems with Windows 10 start times but since the Anniversary update, boot time is just under 3 minutes. Any ideas to what to look into for the cause?