Thank you very much to the kind Redditor who saw fit to gift me an SSD. I have to admit, it was a bit of a pain in the rear. With all that re-sizing, deleting, etc. to get my fat hdd in shape to be copied over to an SSD. I even had to temporarily store some files on an external drive. I almost didn't do it...

Who am I kidding?! I chuckled with glee as I deleted things left and right. I even brought my wife in to help where my fat fingers were not cooperating. It took all night but I now write this as a proud owner of an SSD and my Windows score is the highest it's ever been. Things load much snappier and I don't think I could be happier. I've wanted one of these for years but have held off on dropping the cash because I didn't NEED it. I did. I was wrong. :)

Thank you very much. It's the best present I've ever received from someone I've never met. It might even be the best present I've received from anyone I have met!