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« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2009, 06:51:11 PM » |
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Anytime you modify windows you take a risk of screwing things up. It took me awhile to turn things back to normal after i turned off a bunch of startup features and had to reinstall my windows sidebar. There are a couple of ways to try and make vista 32 bit see 4gb of ram. So you must be careful to follow each step and make sure its a trusted site that your following.
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« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2009, 07:51:46 PM » |
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how can I tell exactly how much ram my system is "seeing"?
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« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2009, 07:54:17 PM » |
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you can see it in your task manager it will tell you total physical memory in mb. or you can get a widget for your sidebar that will tell you what you have as well. if I look at my pc info it tells me 4 gigs of ram even though the pc is only using less than 3.5 gigs 
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« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2009, 09:39:30 PM » |
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Yeah it fools most people into thinking they are getting the use of all of there ram. I dont see how they get away with it.
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« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2009, 01:12:50 PM » |
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Well, I tried the tip and I still showed 3545mb of Ram.  I disabled the "feature". I will say, my laptop is pretty speedy for me! 
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« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2009, 03:39:06 PM » |
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Your lucky it reads that much. Mine read 2937mb. I got more out of it when i only had 3gb installed.
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« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2009, 04:39:51 PM » |
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wow you got a lot mine is around 3.3-3.4 I could of saved some money had I only bought 1.5 more ram instead of two.
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« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2009, 05:15:11 PM » |
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so you're only getting 2937 with 4GB installed?
I wonder if the dual core has anything to do with getting more out of the RAM? I'm not sure, but I think I have the updates to Vista ... maybe that's impacting it?
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« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2009, 05:30:20 PM » |
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that is what he was getting before he upped to 64 bit
I have dual core and only get what I said, it has nothing to do with the processer it is the limitation of vista.
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« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2009, 06:31:04 PM » |
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so then why does my Vista show more of the 4GB than yours?
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« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2009, 06:49:13 PM » |
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who knows, I have all the udates etc, just the luck of the draw I suppose.
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« Reply #26 on: August 07, 2009, 07:25:26 PM » |
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I have a dual core processor as well with all of the updates. This laptop is under 6 months old so its current. Which version of vista do you have Home, Pro?
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« Reply #27 on: August 07, 2009, 07:35:31 PM » |
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I have a dual core processor as well with all of the updates. This laptop is under 6 months old so its current. Which version of vista do you have Home, Pro?
I'm running the Home Premimum version. I have to find out from Dell, but I am supposed to get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it releases in the fall.
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« Reply #28 on: August 08, 2009, 07:27:30 PM » |
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Hopper, sounds like your machine is pretty speedy as is. Dual core processors (better yet, Core 2 Duo) will make a pc/laptop run faster. In essence, it just uses whatever RAM you have faster.
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