Does Vista Home Premimum Play Nice With 4GB Memory?


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.

I have a 1-year old notebook that came with 2GB memory standard with VHP,
and I am thinking that the hard drive is working WAY TOO HARD as part of
the Virtual Mem. Screen/application updates are SUPER slow, and I really
don't have many tasks running (see OTHER BACKGROUND INFO below).

Am I wasting my money and time upgrading to 4 GB from 2 GB?



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OTHER BACKGROUND INFO:

I don't have really a lot of startup programs and am careful to keep them
to a minimum.

I rely on (reputedly memory hog) Firefox for the browser (TBird for the
mail client), and may have as many as 11-15 tabs open at a time; I access
Netflix on FF running an IE browser object inside (same with Hulu), and I
have a radio station stream playing often when I don't have a movie/TV
content running. I am careful to close browser pages running scripted ads
which suck up processor time. Office 2007 products seem well-behaved
(Word, PP) so I really don't worry about closing them when I have a few of
them open.

I have a lot of PDFs open, but they have never been much trouble. Adobe
Acrobat 8.x Pro was behaving badly in a super slow way, and with a system
reboot, it was still behaving badly. I did an application repair and it
seemed to sort itself out.

I am hearing from posts and reading from the Web that memory upgrades are
not helpful with Vista from the 2GB standard.
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Event Viewer - "unexpected shutdowns"
    ... be advised I ran the 'repair' options within the last two weeks a few times by booting from the Vista CD. ... The memory diagnostic tool ran cleanly - as reported during the test and after the reboot - nothing to report. ... The attempted chkdsk from the command prompt reported that I did not have the privilege & advised I had to run in 'elevated mode' - I had never heard or read such a term & have been a PC enthusiast since Windows 3.0 from 1990. ... PS - I should add that upon rebooting after an unexpected shutdown - Vista asks if Safe Mode is desired during rebooting. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: Event Viewer - "unexpected shutdowns"
    ... be advised I ran the 'repair' options within the last two weeks a few times by booting from the Vista CD. ... The memory diagnostic tool ran cleanly - as reported during the test and after the reboot - nothing to report. ... The attempted chkdsk from the command prompt reported that I did not have the privilege & advised I had to run in 'elevated mode' - I had never heard or read such a term & have been a PC enthusiast since Windows 3.0 from 1990. ... PS - I should add that upon rebooting after an unexpected shutdown - Vista asks if Safe Mode is desired during rebooting. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: Performance problem with UnmapViewOfFile() in Vista and XP x64
    ... (assuming they are not part of any other working set). ... point the memory manager may begin flushing them to disk. ... Vista has several changes in this area. ... In LH/Vista SP1 the ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: Does Vista Home Premimum Play Nice With 4GB Memory?
    ... 32-bit Vista does not know how to manage 4 GB memory, which is odd, since ... It's not just Vista, it's *all* 32-bit client versions of Windows. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: Never reinstall XP again
    ... XP, however, will run under Vista so you have to upgrade them to the ... rid of most of the memory to CPU and back transfers. ... bus could be saved. ... a typical PC (graphics apart) is not of that type. ...
    (sci.electronics.design)