how do i make my emachine go faster what do i need?

Question

have u got a rough idea how much it wil b

Answer 1

What CPU you have? You could add 2GB of RAM but if you got a slow CPU you wont see any improvement.

Answer 2

I would upgrade the processor if your running a Celeron or Sempron. Upgrade the Memory to. But if your computer is three years or older I say do not upgrade. Emachine are known for bad motherboard after bout 3years. In our store I've seen 6 in the last year all bad motherboards and some with bad power supplys. Good news is you can replace motherboards in your emachines with a aftermarket board. Unlike most Dells which have a special motherboard form factor.

So I'd do a full upgrade as soon as it bites the dust
motherboard -$70 lowend get a Pentium D
memory -$100 1gig
new cpu -$100 Pentium D or Go Althlon X2

Just my personal opinion by the way your Emachine recovery disc will not work with new setup. you may need to buy a new copy of windows.

I have a lot of customers that are convinced emachine have a self destruct timer built in. But who knows yours might last ten years.

Answer 3

You don't give us a lot to go on but you might try defragmenting the hard drive. That would cost nothing at all

Make sure that you have no viruses use "AVG FREE" virus scanner Spyware will also slow the machine remove it with Spybot Search and Destroy see below.
Use also Adaware which uses a different algorithm to remove spy ware missed by Spybot and visa-versa!

Answer 4

well if its running slower then it used to maybe it just needs a tune up. disable some running tasks and startup programs, that is free and helps alot.

dont know how much memory you have, but upgrading it to 512mb of ram is a good way to make it fast, that shouldnt cost you more then $50 if you had to buy all 512mb, but you already have something in there and if there is an open memory slot you can just ad some to that.

good luck
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Answer 5

Which E do ya have? Always add more Ram, Make sure to do a disk Cleanup every so often

Owner of 5 E's

Answer 6

without knowing what the specs on the machine,are it's difficult to say but....

adding memory will almost certainly generate a perceived speed boost. run belarc advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html to get a detailed profile of your computer's hardware/software.

additionally,reduce the amount of programs that load at startup. press start/run and run 'msconfig' to see what loads at startup. uncheck items like quicktime and the like as they will load when a file that requires them is invoked. there is no need to load them at startup.

press start/run and run 'services.msc' to see what services are running currently and what runs automatically. you can change some to manual instead of automatic to reduce the amount of overhead you're running at any given time. consult this link for information on what you can modify safely...

http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

download and run C***Cleaner... http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

to do cleanup and general housekeeping like cleaning up cookies,temp files and lost links in the registry left over from incomplete uninstallation of old software...

additionally,go into control panel and click on sounds. you'll see that microsoft has assigned certain sounds to the startup and logon when the computer starts. changing these to no sound will speed up the initial boot as the computer doesn't have to stop and play these unessential sound effects that windows is starting/logging on and shutting down...

this will get you going in the right direction...

Answer 7

You can add more memory (RAM) to it (over 1GB is recommended)

Or, try what I was told, which is: install another hard drive in your machine, then set the virtual memory settings to run off of that drive instead of your main (C:) drive. Makes things a lot more smooth.

Answer 8

http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php
ClockGen is an program dedicated to overclocking. Its main purpose is to change the system clocks on the fly : FSB (Front Side Bus) and GSB (Graphic Side Bus). ClockGen also provides some functions that allow you to improve and monitor your overclock.

Answer 9

Add more ram and do a disk cleanup.Also remove stuff you do not use.

Answer 10

Add more memory.