Hmm, have you ran all the performance tools that Windows has installed, like Disk Defragmenter, System Configuration Utility, perhaps Disk Cleanup? Those can help dramatically, especially the System Config tool. Also, on a laptop, certain manufacturers install battery "utilities", generally just bloatware that Windows has been built to manage, try changing the power scheme to Balanced or High Performance. An Intel i3 is definitely capable of being able to run a lot of things at once, and two gigs of RAM is generally ok with 64 bit systems. Unless of course, your graphics card is using some of that and you're left with less. But whatever....