A new laptop is similar to a well-oiled race car, zipping through a plethora of tasks and processes with unobstructed speed. Yet, with extensive period of use, the data build-up and pile-up of files, reduces your laptop’s performance into a sluggish crawl. The delay in programs opening and closing, may now feel quite testing. This is an expected occurrence in the life journey of most laptops. A sluggish laptop experience can feel especially excruciating, if you’re on a deadline for an important project. 

Commonly, scheduled anti-virus scans, multiple background programs, a clog-up from temporary files are the usual suspects causing a slowdown. Yet in certain scenarios, such as dealing with a corrupted/fragmented drive may get too overwhelming for an everyday user.

Sure, there are tips and tricks aplenty online. Yet combing through the gamut of jargons and then pinpointing their location on your laptop or netbook, simply takes up a valuable amount of your time.