What can you do?
Use LINUX. I’m using Mint cinammon 17.1 right now and is the sweetest OS I have ever used. Does circles around windoze while only using half the hardware.
let’s talk apples and oranges.
My Win7 pc has a dual 64bit proc and 4gb of RAM.
My Linux Mint (cinammon rebecca) has a single 64bit proc and 4gb of RAM, and it does circles around the windoze machine.
And never any maintenance required, i.e. defrag, c cleaner, malware etc. Linux Mint “Rebecca (17.1)” is THE sweetest OS I have ever used.