On 12/22/2010 3:27 PM PT, Paul typed:

A couple days ago, I upgraded my old 32-bit Windows XP Pro. SP3 (IE6)
system/computer/system to an Intel i7 with 6 GB of RAM. I know that
32-bit operating systems/OS' cannot see all that RAM due to old
software designs' limitations. Currently, my working Windows only sees
about 2.5 GB of physical RAM (shouldn't it be 3 GB though?).

I heard that I can use the unused memory for other things like a RAM
drive for swap files, %temp%, etc. How do I do that?

And yes, I will get 64-bit W7 or another OS one day. At this time, I
am not going to do that since XP Pro. SP3 does fine for what I need.

Thank you in advance.

A 32 bit OS, can access more than 4GB of RAM, by using PAE. The
results you see today, are design and licensing considerations
by Microsoft. As currently set up, there isn't a way for your SP3
OS, to read or write to "high memory". But if you went back to
SP1 Service Pack, it might have been possible. (Or before
whatever Service Pack, brought support for DEP and NX.)

http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer....nse/memory.htm

Ah, not possible in SP2 and SP3. Interesting. Back in SP1 and no SP, did
it allow extra memory to be used as RAM disk drive?
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