﻿<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Windows Vista Forum / Vista Technical / Performance &amp; Tweaks  / How to Enable More Than 4 GB of Memory in 32-Bit Vista installs / Latest Posts</title><generator>InstantForum.NET v4.1.4</generator><description>Windows Vista Forum</description><link>http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/</link><webMaster>Admin@VistaForums.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:39:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>RE: How to Enable More Than 4 GB of Memory in 32-Bit Vista installs</title><link>http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic6358-12-1.aspx</link><description>Just to let everyone know, PAE will extend your memory allocation but it will not be as fast as if you had 64 bit addressing. Nice Tweak!</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:06:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator></item><item><title>How to Enable More Than 4 GB of Memory in 32-Bit Vista installs</title><link>http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic6358-12-1.aspx</link><description>I found this on another site and thought it might be usefull to some ppl.&lt;P&gt;[hr]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Windows Vista 32-Bit cannot by default detect more than 4 GB of physical RAM. This limit is set because&lt;IMG title=vista1.jpg alt=vista1.jpg src="http://www.arsgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/vista1.jpg" align=right&gt; beyond 4 GB, many 32-Bit operating systems lose effeciency in managing memory.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can manually bump this up however if you have a machine with more than 4 GB of memory and only have access to the 32-Bit versions of Vista.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Click on the start pebble and in the search area type:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;[hr]cmd[hr]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Don’t hit the enter key however.  You’ll see that after you type &lt;EM&gt;cmd&lt;/EM&gt; in the search box, &lt;EM&gt;cmd.exe&lt;/EM&gt; will appear in the programs list.  You’ll have to open this as an administrator.  To do this, right click on it and choose &lt;EM&gt;Run as Administrator&lt;/EM&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Once your command prompt is open, type:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;[hr]BCDEdit /set PAE forceenable[hr]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;BCDEdit&lt;/EM&gt; is a boot configuration editor for the command line. Using the above command you’ve just enabled &lt;EM&gt;Physical Address Extension (PAE)&lt;/EM&gt; which can address memory larger than 4 GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The 64-Bit versions of Vista can support between 8 GB and 128 GB of RAM depending on what version you get your hands on.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:16:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>VistaRocks</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>