My laptop is not in good shape. Compaq Presario, bought new July 2006.

It takes over 12 minutes to start up. Once you click on anything, the light stays lit (indicating it is working) the whole thing locks up, and I just sit and wait until it decided to move.

Last evening it took my 47 minutes to turn it on, log on to Firefox and open ONE email message. And lest anyone think it is my wi fi, I takes me ages to open Word and get in to a document.

I am using ccCleaner daily. While that helped when I first started, doesn't do much lately.

Do I take it to someone for diagnosis? Staples, Best Buy, someone else?
Or do I just get a new one?