Well if you click on the gear on top right side of the page. Then is your app setting click calendar then notifications and you can set up text notifications
Well better is always personal choice. Some others are Media Monkey, Music Bee and Clementine.
Here is an article that lists.
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/477-music-manager-desktop-android-ios-sync.html#s2
They might if they have Office 365 which they will use outlook especially. Lots of companies use Windows desktops and iOS or Android phones. Right now Google and MS are competing for email services and they offer their offices packages as part of it. Plus single sign on apps are big now like...
https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-MicroSD-Adapter-Microsoft-Model-350A/dp/B01AT7ECA2?tag=hawk-future-20&ascsubtag=UUwpUvbUpU3749469
I have this on my Surface Book and my Surface Book 2.
Crapware won't affect the startup much unless it started at startup or you have a very small boot drive. Startup is affected by what's running. Stuff not running will only affect if the drive free space is low.
Well whenever videos are buffering means the connection is slow. This mostly happens when streaming from the internet but could happen on external hard drives. In other word the video isn't being receives at the speed it's being played at.