We have all been here. Your laptop starts chugging, apps take forever to open, and you are often treated with the Blue Screen of Death errors. For years, our go-to solution for fixing such problems was to simply reinstall the Windows OS and get back to our tasks. Nuking it all has been the gold-standard advice in the tech community, and we have been conditioned to believe that for every problem, a fresh start to your laptop is the best option.