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Old January 16th 11, 09:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Patok[_2_]
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Default Using my extra RAM for other things in an old, updated 32-bitXP Pro. SP3.

Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
On 1/15/2011 3:19 PM PT, Patok typed:

I quite accidentally came across the Ramdisk product:
http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...tware/ramdisk? which
does exactly what you want, as long as your motherboard has Physical
Address Extensions enabled. If it does, you can have a nice 2GB ramdisk
for free. I didn't read this thread carefully, so I don't know if this
product was mentioned, or not. Sorry if it was.


Oooh, I think that's the program I heard about. Free for 4 GB and less.
Sweet.


I'm testing it now, and I can't believe what it's doing :-) I never thought
I'd see WinXP SP3 x32, access memory above 4GB. But that's what they've
managed to do, and claim to be doing it via PAE. Pretty amazing. I'm using
mine as a Page File, as a test :-)


This is actually the most sensible usage for the Ramdisk in XP32, come to
think of it. That way, you effectively use the entire memory for... memory! Heh.
Please report back if there are any problems with such usage. From the
description of how Ramdisk works (in the PDF manual), it should be fine, but who
knows.

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