An employee has reported that their laptop, which has a traditional hard drive, takes an exceptionally long time to open applications and switch between tasks. After verifying that no significant CPU or memory utilization spikes occur, which of the following actions could directly address the slow responsiveness of the laptop?
Defragmenting the hard drive can help improve the responsiveness of a laptop with a traditional hard drive by optimizing the layout of files on the disk for quicker access. Installing more RAM would not directly address issues with application loading times if CPU and memory utilization are within normal ranges. Replacing the battery does not impact system performance unless there are power management issues causing CPU throttling. Updating the BIOS can resolve various issues, but it is not directly related to application responsiveness.
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