Your can use Macrium Reflect Free to clone your current HDD so absolutely nothing changes except for the speed. You can do it in a couple of hours, it's not hard, and there are plenty of guides on the web to show you how to do it. I did it on a laptop that required me to totally disassemble it but it was still worth it. It's not hard to install an SSD as long as your laptop is designed to easily replace the disk. If they'd stop adding unneeded features and actually focus on fixing major flaws they would have a professional and credible product that didn't require their users go crazy trying to make it work right. This is a common occurrence and one you are going want to fix. If nothing is working on your PC until you reboot, you are alone. Computers that keep freezing when youre trying to work are infuriating, and it can result in loss data, loss of time, and lost productivity. I don't know why Evernote doesn't fix their apps (on Windows, and it's much worse on Android) to correct this. If your Windows 10 PC keeps freezing up or not responding, youre probably at your wits end.

And an SSD installed in on old machine really does speed it up tremendously. The only way I could fix this and make it stick was with an SSD. I tried all sorts of things on several Windows machines.

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