Originally Posted by
cblaisd
I still love my Lenovo X220 (especially since I put in an SSD).
But the symptons of Windows detritus are there and I know from experience that a clean reinstall would speed things up.
But I also know from experience what a painful experience that can be.
Any new wisdom on the best way to do a fresh Windows reinstall while keeping all the setting, tweaks, etc., that I've developed for my programs?
While this won't help you this time, you may want to look into something like Acronis True Image Home.
You go through the pain of reinstalling Windows, all your programs, tweak everything the way you want it and then you use this to make a disk image which you put somewhere you won't loose
The disk image is a copy of everything on your hard drive exactly as it stands at the time the image is made. In the future, if you need to do it again, just restore the image and then you just need to update Windows and anything else to bring you back to where you are right now.