Hello Glenn,
Great information, thanks for providing it. The laptop has been available for 10 years and the laptop has only 4GB of DDR3 available for the whole system. You could attempt to make this thing last a bit longer with some upgrades Memory and SSD, however it really is time for a new laptop.
You can try a few things to speed up your laptop and test the Hard Drive
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