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Everyone here has grand ideas, but maybe you don't need any of that stuff. My old laptops are retired as couch laptops; they just live on the couch, so I can do pointless stuff, like leave this comment.
Currently on a laptop that was purchased in 2007; it was running Windows Vista on a 2GHz Pentium Dual Core, with 4GB RAM. As you can imagine, it did a poor job, even when new. For the past decade+, it has been running Linux Mint with (fast and light) XFCE desktop, and it's faster than a new Windows laptop (of similar shit-tier).
So, there you have my suggestion. Throw Linux on your old laptop (so it runs properly), and then park it on the couch.