Slow PC

[Sasso1]

Would Increasing Memory space improve PC speed?
Any advice appreciated

Sasso1

[VHG]

Not sure what you mean by "memory space".

There are two main types of memory in a PC.

1) There is your main memory (also called Real Memory or RAM)

2) There is your hard disk memory.

Increasing 1 above WILL speed up your computer. So if you have 512Mb, doubling it to 1Gb will speed up your PC (probably), or if you have 1Gb doubling it 2Gb may speed it up.

Increasing 2 above will probably NOT speed up your PC (unless your hard disk is totally full) and then all you need to do is delete some files, and that may speed up Windows a bit (but maybe not a lot).

Easiest and cheapest option is more RAM.

[VHG]

By the way if it is your interent and broadband that is slow then increasing memory will probably NOT speed up the internet.

The only thing you can do is pay for a higher Mbps (megabits per second) speed

[ACtheTROLL]

I'm guessing "memory" in this case is disk space?

the answer is maybe/probably

a happy PC has about 20-25% free space

start with
http://www.ccleaner.com/download
this will get rid of most of the detritus

then run chkdisk and finally defrag the disk
(right click your c: | properties | tools - the first two options)

youmight not see a huge improvement .... but you should see some