Now that all of this is loaded to my liking, the hard drive is compressed and defragmented, the only thing that I have to do left is drop one 8GB stick of RAM into it to max it out and everything will be precisely as I want it to be. Sadly I can’t drop the 16GB stick of RAM from our previous laptop into this one because that one ran DDR4 RAM and this one runs DDR3, but the specs are otherwise nearly comparable and in some aspects actually exceed the previous laptop that we owned. I just need to get used to the slightly different keyboard schematics that this one has because our previous laptop was a Lenovo and this one is a Hewlett-Packard (and at that, the first Hewlett-Packard laptop that I have ever owned… not that I have anything negative to say about it, of course), but once I get past the minor changes in how the keyboard is set up, I think everything will run completely smoothly. And while I’ve been doing that, to save myself some space and some trouble, I’ve been uninstalling some of the apps that have come with it that I have no need for.

I also came to the surprising conclusion that this has a fully functional touchscreen. I did not realize that until I accidentally touched the screen and something moved. You weren’t supposed to do that, computer! I haven’t gotten around to disabling it yet because the kids actually have not noticed it yet, but I think I will.

Did you know that after compressing one’s hard drive, it gets fragmented like… well, whoa, though?

And that the best thing is to go back in and defragment it all over again? I don’t understand this one bit.

I seriously had some files that had fragments as high as in the six thousands. Luckily not a whole lot, but…