Re: Does Vista Home Premimum Play Nice With 4GB Memory?

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I am hearing some talk----urban legends?----and reading on the web that
32-bit Vista does not know how to manage 4 GB memory, which is odd, since
2^32 addressable spaces---namely 4GB---are all about that.

The legends are wrong: 32-bit Vista will manage a 4G address space. HOWEVER, several hundred kilobytes of that 4G address space are taken up by the hardware devices, BIOS, etc. These hardware devices "overlap" the RAM, rendering it unreachable in normal use. So only around 3.2 - 3.5G is actually usable by Vista for itself and programs.

I think you will find an improvement by going up to 4G from your current 2G. I did. The fact that a few hundred kilobytes is wasted is no reason not to do it.

SteveT

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