How to improve and boost my laptop's performanc​e ?

Hi there,
My personal laptop is Lenovo THINKPAD T500 2055, and its main specifications are as follows:
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2)
- 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory Module 4 GB (2 x 4 GB) 1066MHz DDR31066/PC38500 DDR3 SDRAM SoDIMM Kingston
- 2 GB Intel Turbo Memory hard drive cache
- ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 with 256MB.
- 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm.
- Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1 (x64).
My problem precisely and concisely is that I am NOT happy nor satisfied with the performance of my laptop at all, and I need your assitance and advises to boost my laptop's performance.
I do NOT use my laptop for games at all. Also, I do NOT use my laptop for working with graphics at all.
I am using my laptop for surfing the Internet (Chatting, Reading, Watching Videos...etc).
Also, I have Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive, from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S) that I use for Software development (Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Vmware) purposes.
Though I don't have any heavy applications running on my laptop such as (Norton AntiVirus...etc), I feel that my laptop is not fast. BTW, there's no viruses or malicious software that are affecting my laptop or its memory. 
Therefore, I want to ask you, what can I do to improve the performance of my laptop and increase its speed ?
I would greatly appreciate your inputs.
Thanks for your consideration of my request, and I very much look forward to hearing from you soon !

Once again, I am NOT happy nor satisfied with the performance of my laptop at all, because it is not fast, and I am not impressed at all by its poor performance. Truthfully, I regret so much that I have bought it.
I can conclusively that I am having an extremely unpleasant experience with my laptop, and I wish to get rid of it as soon as possible.
More than 7 years ago, I bought a desktop PC (Pentium 4: CPU 2.5 GB & 2 GB RAM), I swear it has the same performance with my current laptop.
Do you feel me? Do you understand why I am sad, not satisfied and unhappy about my laptop?
I paid a lot for this laptop, and I bought extra RAM, and I bought external hard drive (To keep my hard drive empty)…. What is the result? Just a very normal laptop performance…
When I open two word documents files with a movie (Windows Media Player or any other player) and I try to open one small PDF file, then, it will take more than 15 seconds to open the file…. Why on earth this is happening?
When I work with Vmware, Windows Virtual PC, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or Hyper-V… The laptop becomes very sluggish with totally unacceptable performance, it is just dying, and when you open a PDF file or word document, it will take about 30 seconds to open.
Do you feel me? Do you understand why I am sad, not satisfied and unhappy about my laptop?
Both application load time and process response time are embarrassment.
When I swtich on my laptop, it takes about 3 minutes to display Login-Screen. When I enter the password, it takes about 30 seconds to open properly though there is no startup programs (Programs runs when the OS starts) at all.
@ColonelONeill
You wrote “Run CCleaner”.
Could you please provide me more details? I mean: Could you please give me a link of the specific tool that you have mentioned?
Also, you asked me “Is your drive well defragged”?
Well, I think yes. Sometimes I right clicked on the drive C:  -> Properties -> Tools -> Defragmentation.
Also, you wrote “Make sure the power settings are configured for optimal performance.” 
Could you please provide me steps and instructions to do so?
@Q-Ball   &   @Ideasmiths
Your suggestion about buying SSD is very logical, However, I am not going to buy it. Simply because the whole laptop is not worthy and somehow I believe that the feeling of 'slow' speed will never stop. I already did a mistake and bought extra RAM for this useless laptop…. What happens ….nothing really has changed.
Also, I have Microsoft Security Essentials installed, and I don’t have fingerprint reader feature.
@ lead_org
You wrote “When you say not fast, can you precisely define what you mean?”?
Please read the first parts of my post.
You wrote “check whether you are consuming up all your CPU resources”?
Yes, I do that. About 30% CPU Usage and 2,9 GB PF Usage. My laptop has never approached 100% load.

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