You aren't going to like this, but there is something running in Windows that is bogging your system down. I had a similar issue last year and resorted to a complete reformat of the HD and a new install of everything. As part of the same process, I upgraded from a spinning platter HD to an SSD; made a major difference.

Also, your 8 Gb of system RAM is a bottleneck. Go to www.crucial.com, enter the model # of your HP and see what the max system RAM is; buy it and install. Laptops have tons of little screws to remove and sometimes you have to remove internal components to get at the memory slots. If it's an issue, have a local computer store do the upgrades.

First thing you should do is open the case and clean the dust. Dust and dirt collect in the finned heatsinks on the CPU and Video Cards. Take it outside and use a vacuum cleaner carefully to clean visible dust, Next use a canned air to blow out the heatsinks. Do not forget the power supply. Most CPUs have the ability to switch to a low power state when they overheat. Make sure no cables get disconnected.

Next use one of the system cleaners to inspect and correct problems. Internet browsers and other programs leave a lot of files on the drive, some can be very large.

Here is a hint. Next time is slows down use the Control-Alt-Delete buttons together at the same time. When the window pops up select task manager and then performance. This will give you an idea of what is causing the slow down.

First thing you should do is open the case and clean the dust. Dust and dirt collect in the finned heatsinks on the CPU and Video Cards. Take it outside and use a vacuum cleaner carefully to clean visible dust, Next use a canned air to blow out the heatsinks. Do not forget the power supply. Most CPUs have the ability to switch to a low power state when they overheat. Make sure no cables get disconnected.

Next use one of the system cleaners to inspect and correct problems. Internet browsers and other programs leave a lot of files on the drive, some can be very large.

Here is a hint. Next time is slows down use the Control-Alt-Delete buttons together at the same time. When the window pops up select task manager and then performance. This will give you an idea of what is causing the slow down.

I will admit, I am very limited in my knowledge of computers, especially when it comes to the internal makeup. So, here is my dilemma. My computer is really bogging down lately, sometimes I can go several minutes in a frozen state. I am wondering if I have enough ooomph (can't think of a techno word!) to run my programs. I have adobe photoshop cc on it, and I do quite a bit of photo processing. I also had Todaz DeNoise. If I try to run those two programs at the same time, it is really slow. In fact, when I try to boot the compouter up in the morning, sometime, I can wait close to 5 minutes before I can access the internet. I am using less than half of the disc space that is available. So, is there anything I can do to get it to respond quicker, maybe add more RAM? Here are the specs for my computer.

HP Notebook 15-bs115x

GENERAL SPECS:
operating system Windows 10 Home 64 bit Version 1904.1052
microprocessor intel(R) Core (TM) 15-B250u CPU1.60GHz
system memory 8GB
memory slot 1 8GB Samsung 2400 MHz
system board 832A23.77
system bios F.67

VIDEO
graphics device Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620
resolution 1366 x 768
refresh rate 60 Hz

I hope this helps, any advice/help is greatly appreciated.

You aren't going to like this but basically your laptop needs complete replacement. Some of the suggestions given will only give you short lived and probably minor improvements. It is totally under-powered for what you are doing. My wife's PC would eat your laptop for breakfast and I am looking at swapping her graphics card for a much faster one with a faster GPU because she is seeing slow performance when using Topaz denoise.
Unless you get a gamers laptop (and even then they aren't as good as even a medium specced desktop) using a laptop is an exercise in frustration as you are finding. The only time you should use a laptop is if you absolutely have to have the portability ALL THE TIME. There is no other good reason. A GOOD laptop can be useful if you are traveling on holiday but for day to day no good.
It is like trying to run a household furniture moving business using a small van.
Now I know that we are all here to help people but just sometimes (actually quite a lot but different story) there is no way it can be done. And after doing the suggestions mentioned above by others a full restore of Windows will be necessary to give you access to even the smallest amount of improvement.
I bet you a lot of people will defend using a laptop but they are either very ignorant or are retired and don't care if a single photo takes all day to process. It is unfortunate that you are somewhat challenged with computers but that is just something you will have to work around if you wish to pursue an interest in photography.

You aren't going to like this but basically your laptop needs complete replacement. Some of the suggestions given will only give you short lived and probably minor improvements. It is totally under-powered for what you are doing. My wife's PC would eat your laptop for breakfast and I am looking at swapping her graphics card for a much faster one with a faster GPU because she is seeing slow performance when using Topaz denoise.
Unless you get a gamers laptop (and even then they aren't as good as even a medium specced desktop) using a laptop is an exercise in frustration as you are finding. The only time you should use a laptop is if you absolutely have to have the portability ALL THE TIME. There is no other good reason. A GOOD laptop can be useful if you are traveling on holiday but for day to day no good.
It is like trying to run a household furniture moving business using a small van.
Now I know that we are all here to help people but just sometimes (actually quite a lot but different story) there is no way it can be done. And after doing the suggestions mentioned above by others a full restore of Windows will be necessary to give you access to even the smallest amount of improvement.
I bet you a lot of people will defend using a laptop but they are either very ignorant or are retired and don't care if a single photo takes all day to process. It is unfortunate that you are somewhat challenged with computers but that is just something you will have to work around if you wish to pursue an interest in photography.

Stop giving bad general advice. Wrto laptops you couldn't be more wrong. Sure, it's possible to get a laptop that will perform poorly, e.g., any of the cheap ones, just as it is possible to get a desktop that will perform poorly. With the exception of certain power dense applications, think bitcoin mining, for almost all users there is no performance limit differentiation between laptops and desktops.

But there are plenty of laptop configurations that do better than desktops.

I have a two year old Dell XPS 15 laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M w/ 2GB, 64 bit Win 10 Pro, 1TB internal SSD, 2TB external SSD, HD touchscreen display) that I use for Lightroom, Photoshop, CAD for 3D design, Pinnacle (video editing), as well as professionally for software development. The only application that I use that probably could use more power is when I do video editing in Pinnacle. But for everything else, performance is just peachy.

Since I've been in IT since 1963 as a software developer, application developer, entrepreneur, consultant, I am far from (computer) ignorant but I am partially retired.