How to Speed up your PC

The New York times discusses five controversial ways to speed up your PC.

Mine is getting slow, but may be because I have a ton of pictures on it. I have an external hard drive, but that isn't doing me any good right now; first, I dropped it and had to get a new case because it just wasn't working, then my USB port burned out and I have to figure out where I may best put the hard drive so it may connect through another port and I can reach it, if necessary.