More about Windows 8.1

Here's a "before and after" with Auslogics Disk Defrag on the Windows 8.1 partition on here, after installing that massive optional update yesterday.... there were a lot of fragmented files.

The suggestion being, you should do this too after large updates. Connecting all the dots makes everything run better, with the possible exception of Google.
They still haven't finished a lot of the jobs they started. They go for lunch and never come back.... that's why it's a constant struggle to keep my chosen font active while composing this eloquent prose, and why I'm complaining.