Hi How do you get 8MB of RAM on a 32 bit OS? I went through this with Dell, and they said that 2MB is the limit for XP Pro (later versions). Apparrently the OS reserves 2 MB for ity's own uses.
from Microsoft :
"All processes (e.g. application executables) running under 32 bit Windows gets virtual memory addresses (a Virtual Address Space) going from 0 to 4,294,967,295 (2*32-1 = 4 GB), no matter how much RAM is actually installed on the computer.In the default Windows OS configuration, 2 GB of this virtual address space are designated for each process’ private use and the other 2 GB are shared between all processes and the operating system. Normally, applications (e.g. Notepad, Word, Excel, Acrobat Reader) use only a small fraction of the 2GB of private address space. The operating system only assigns RAM page frames to virtual memory pages that are in use."
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