Two very good ways:
1. Don't shutdown, but use hibernate. Then there's no Windows boot at all if you turn the laptop on.
2. Replace the hard disk by an SSD and reload the OS from the recovery disks you made. Even doing only one of the 2 makes a big difference.
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