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

Five By Five <5x5@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

32-bit Vista - as well as 32-bit XP and any other 32-bit Microsoft
client OS - has a 4GB address space. Some of that space must be used
to access your video RAM, your BIOS and some other things. The
remainder is used for your system RAM. You usually wind up with 3.2 -
3.5 GB of usable RAM. See http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html

Vista SP1 will report that you have 4GB of RAM installed. But it won't
be able to use any more of that than pre-SP1 Vista.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
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