My work laptop runs Windows 7 Pro, and I usually reboot it once a month, when it installs updates. It is slow as a turtle, but rebooting does not really help w

My work laptop runs Windows 7 Pro, and I usually reboot it once a month, when it installs updates. It is slow as a turtle, but rebooting does not really help with that. (To be fair, it slow at least in part because it is five years old, has only three GB of RAM (remember the days when we would have drooled at the thought of that?), and I installed way too much software on it, a good part of it usually running when I use it.)