Is there any tweaks that help to speed up read, write and response times in windows?
Yeah buy a SSD, its the best way of getting a speed boost.
By this do you mean a Solid State Drive? and is it just a hard drive you install in your machine ?
yes solid state hard drive you would install it in your machine
then reinstall windows or load a image of your operating system
on to the solid state hard drive
you can create a image using favorite is clonezilla