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Hey, I told you to use the startup applications panel to disable something from there, not the panel to uninstall stuff. Not the same thing! Tutorial linked above!
The programs that slow down the machine are the ones activated at startup that run 100% of the time. As I said they are components of programs you don't want to uninstall, like auto-updaters or preloaders (they shorten load times of a particular program by pre-loading it, this of course degrades performance for everything else, and slows boot times), uninstalling stuff is useful but not what I said.
Whatever is installed but not running does not have any effect (otherwise I'd have already killed this rig with the crapload of Steam games I have on it).
Yes, there are some ways, but I'd say it's unnecessary. All modern SSDs are SATA III. Even if your laptop has a SATA II, the SSD will run at SATA II speed (usually automatically, but check if there are jumpers to set). SATA I is way too old for your laptop so I'd rule it out.After some research, i've heard of SATA I, II and III and some PC's not being compatible with III. Is there a way I can know?
Of course it will be a bit worse in theory, but unless you run benchmarks you won't notice it. The main effect is being snappy, and that's because of very very low waiting time before it finds the data it was looking for. SATA II speed is more than enough as it can fill that much more than HDDs can.
This article goes more in depth with benchmarks and their conclusions are just that.
As for the size, 2.5'' is the same size as your laptop's HDD (any laptop HDD for that matter) and they say it is only 7mm thick. Check your current HDD thickness, but I think the SSD is thinner. At most you may have to put some paper or whatever into it just to make sure it does fit snugly. If your HDD is in a metal frame screwed on the HDD, then you're probably ok as the SSD will be screwed to that frame anyway.