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I’m in my 2nd year doing BS Maths with AI. Last semester I had one project worth 40% of my grade. A machine learning model I spent 3 months on. Two weeks before submission, my laptop started running like garbage. 100% disk usage, fan screaming, taking 10 minutes to open Chrome. Classic. I’m broke and can’t afford a new laptop, so I googled "how to speed up windows laptop". First result: "Disable startup programs and delete temp files". Easy. Second result: "Clean up disk space by deleting old system restore points and unused files". Third result on some forum: "If you’re desperate, you can delete the Windows.old folder and clear the Prefetch folder to free up space". I did all of that. Disk went from 94% full to 31%. Laptop was fast again. I felt like a genius. I shut it down, went to sleep, woke up the next morning to finish my project. Turned it on. Desktop loads. My "University" folder? Gone. My "Project_ML_Final...