How did you figure? When the machine dies, you are behind the 8 ball. Today, before it dies, time is on your side.

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Computers are not to be trusted. Save anything you want to keep on external storage of some sort.

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Oh my--stupid mistype
OS is XP (NOT XT!!) 2002 with SP3
eMachine T3090 AMD Sempron 3000+
1.99 GHz 704 MB Ram

some info from Task Manager-
I have 5 Chrome.exe on the list and 7 svchost.exe processes

When I first checked, I had 34 processes running, a few minutes later--40

IDK if this is pertinent, but ==

Kernal Memory total 67824, paged 47392, non paged 20432
Memory Total 720368, Available 357180, System Cache 342156--these number constantly change but seem to stay around these numbers.

Does any of this help you experts know anything that will help me?

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Sounds like you have a 512mb stick combined with a 256 stick (-64mb for shared video memory mayhap?). You can find some DDR ram for decent price. Im not sure but most older emachines run a max of 2gb ram. Your Sempron CPU is terrible however, so its questionable how beneficial 2gb of memory will be.

Did you do as myself and others suggested and go to your msconfig startup tab and start checking off processes?

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I have 2 gb of memory that will fit. Came out of my AMD dual core emachines tower, yours for price of shipping. My tower was a T6520, only difference in the memory is that mine is PC3200, yours is PC2700, the PC3200 is backwards compatible so there won't be a difference there. If you want to go that route, let me know. I'd offer the whole machine but its in pieces at the moment and wouldn't have a hard drive, mouse, keyboard, monitor.

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Some selected specs for eMachines Model: T3090

• Processor: AMD Sempron3000+(2.0GHz)
• Memory: 512MB
• Memory Speed: DDR333
• Form Factor: DIMM 184-pin
• Memory Spec: 512MB x 1
• Maximum Memory Supported: 2GB
• HDD Interface: PATA

You're looking at ~$50 to max out the memory (2GB max), and you're still going to have a very slow machine even when it works as designed. The main performance bottleneck here is the old PATA HDD. SATA offers a large improvement, as does DDR3 memory. Given that you're almost certainly using Virtual Memory, that thing is probably making you wait for it quite often, and for a few seconds or more each time.

You could add a USB 2.0 HDD but that money would probably be better spent on newer hardware. I like squeezing all the life out of a purchase too, and I think you've managed to get most of the useful life out of this machine. IMO

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Shall we try and hunt you up a new one?

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I concur. Try out the free memory tbomachines is generously offering and go from there.

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Yeah, get that free memory, maybe go buy a USB external drive, transfer all your important files onto it, and then get you a new machine, and put that thing out to pasture.

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I thought Windows had some sort of program to transfer files and maybe even programs?

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99 E300 Turbodiesel
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03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
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I need to know what processes I need to keep. Any idea why I have multiple processes of the same name running at the same time? Can I safely eliminate all but one of any process?

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If you have multiple tabs open you may see svchost appear for each, or something like that. So, no, you probably shouldn't delete them.

OTOH, can't hurt much to do a little experiment.

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Generally, the microsoft startup services can be left alone, your anti virus should be left alone if you have one, anything driver related (ethernet/audio/etc) leave alone. **** like Adobe, Flashupdate, microsoft office, etc should be unchecked.

To be clear, do this in the Startup tab, not Services tab.

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OK,
IIRC CCCleaner gives me an option to edit the startup, so I can use that.
If I have only one window open, I should not have multiple identical processes running, right? I can safely close, or ignore, all but one of those processes right?

Worst case scenario and i delete something essential. Reboot and allow that process to operate and no harm done?

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