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junior - 26 May 2008 23:05 GMT

It seems that with Vista is possible to overcome the 4 Gb barrier:

How to get more than 4 GB of memory under Windows Vista 32-bit
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.korben.info%2F&langpair=fr%7C
en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

There is something like this on XP Pro 32 or, to work with more than 3/4Gb
XP only the XP 64-bit version?

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Meinolf Weber - 27 May 2008 07:35 GMT

Hello junior,

The link does not work. Anyway, 32bit OS can only support up to 4GB RAM.
With Vista 64 bit you can use on Home Basic up to 8GB and the Business, Ultimate,
Enterprise editions can handle up to 128 GB of RAM, if you find workstation
motherboards that can handle the amount of RAM.

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> It seems that with Vista is possible to overcome the 4 Gb barrier:
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> Regards.

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Tim Slattery - 27 May 2008 14:53 GMT

>It seems that with Vista is possible to overcome the 4 Gb barrier:
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>There is something like this on XP Pro 32 or, to work with more than 3/4Gb
>XP only the XP 64-bit version?

That page is wrong. To use more than 4GB of RAM, you can either find
an OS that uses PAE (Programmed Address Extensions), or use a 64-bit
OS. PAE is used by Microsoft's server systems, but not by either XP or
Vista (except to implement DEP). I understand that Linux also supports
PAE. So for Microsoft desktop systems, namely XP and Vista, you'll
need the 64-bit version to use more than 4GB RAM.

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junior - 28 May 2008 01:47 GMT

Thanks, and the correct link is (comments on this are welcome):

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.korben.inf
o/comment-avoir-plus-de-4-gb-de-memoire-sous-windows-vista-32-bits.html

>>It seems that with Vista is possible to overcome the 4 Gb barrier:
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> PAE. So for Microsoft desktop systems, namely XP and Vista, you'll
> need the 64-bit version to use more than 4GB RAM.

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