Vista SP-1 Changelog

[Guest Clayton]

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071208/vista-sp1-changelog/

 

 

I must say, most impressive, especially

a.. With SP1, Windows Vista will report the amount of system memory

installed rather than report the amount of system memory available to the

OS. Therefore 32-bit systems equipped with 4GB of RAM will report all 4BG in

many places throughout the OS, such as the System Control Panel. However,

this behavior is dependent on having a compatible BIOS, so not all users may

notice this change.

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: Vista SP-1 Changelog

 

It can report it all it wants. But look at Taskmanager - that's where you'll

see that you don't really have 4 GB of RAM. There's no magic here - you

can't use all 4 GB of virtual memory address space for RAM because there are

cards that need some of that address space. Video cards are generally the

single biggest item chewing up address space. If you want 4 GB of RAM and

want to have access to all of it, you must run x64 Windows.

 

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Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"Clayton" <claytonbNOSPAM@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message

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> http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071208/vista-sp1-changelog/

>

>

> I must say, most impressive, especially

> a.. With SP1, Windows Vista will report the amount of system memory

> installed rather than report the amount of system memory available to the

> OS. Therefore 32-bit systems equipped with 4GB of RAM will report all 4BG

> in many places throughout the OS, such as the System Control Panel.

> However, this behavior is dependent on having a compatible BIOS, so not

> all users may notice this change.

>