Defragmentation and other performance enhancements?

Question

Windows

The question is as old as the world, but relevant information appears daily, so it is asked again.
The problem is the performance of the laptop on Win8.1, the weakest point of the laptop is the hard drive.
Questions: The
best defragmentation utility to date, taking into account all the updates and other
Ways to generally speed up the work with the hard drive, except for replacing it
An interesting case is that the native touchpad gesture management utility starts immediately, but starts working after 10 minutes of use laptop. There is no junk in autoload, what could be the reasons?
Other ways to speed up and optimize everything and everything
Thanks in advance to all knowledgeable, this topic has become very nerve-racking.

Answer 1

habrahabr.ru/post/106684
or SSD.
SSD is better.

Answer 2

Hammer you on defragmentation. Well, there is no benefit from it for home use (at least no matter what utilities you use). If you want a fast drive, buy a fast drive.
But if, for example, you have a lot of RAM, then create a RAM \ HybridRAM disk.