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This article reads like something a cheerleader on Microsoft's payroll wrote. It it is, that should be disclosed. I am not impressed with Windows 8 at all.
Do you have an HP printer? All the crap that comes bundled with those slows computers to a crawl. If so, uninstall all the crap that came with it, then install drivers only after downloading them from HP.com. You don't want all the junkware on the CD.