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Long before trying to fix it, first discover where the bottleneck is. Is a bottleneck durnig power up? Or during operation?
Reasons for a slow bootup include the so many programs that load then even though they are not (yet) being used. Such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office. Microsoft's System Internals program called Autoruns can then identify and turn off that loading.
Bottlenecks during operation can be in CPU use, Page (memory) faults, IO faults, or so many TCP/IP connections during some internet access. Bottlenecks can be identified by Process Explorer. Too many Tcp/Ip connections by TCPview. All programs from Microsoft.
Some websites open connections to over 50 other URLs before the page fully loads. Closing or blocking those connections can massively increase execution speeds.
List of connections diverted to 127.0.0.1 attempts to divert many TCP/IP connections. Those can be closed by TCPview or can be eliminated by an IP blocker.
SSD is useful when the system has limited memory and is doing too many page faults to the hard drive. Doing those same page faults to the SSD is the equivalent of adding more memory. SSD solution works best when that is the bottleneck. But again, better is to identify the bottleneck long before implementing a solution.
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