As computer memory becomes more and more integral in our day-to-day lives, we should always be interested in expanding the amount of physical RAM that is installed in our PCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By default, Windows XP’s maximum RAM amount is 2Gb. This operative system won’t use more memory even with more RAM memory available already installed on the motherboard of our PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there are some tricks to avoid this XP RAM limit and make Windows XP use even 3Gb and even 4Gb of RAM when running some applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s open the BOOT.INI file. It is possible that this file could remain as a hidden file in some Windows XP versions, even after enabling the Windows “display hidden files” option. But to open this file you just need to type C:\\boot.ini in the address bar of the Windows XP File Explorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then let’s find the following line of code inside such Windows configuration file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” \/fastdetect<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After \/fastdetect let’s type a blank space and then \/3GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The resulting Windows configuration line would be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” \/fastdetect \/3GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To reach the Windows XP maximum RAM amount of 4Gb we have to add this configuration option to the previous Windows code: \/PAE just before \/3GB. The configuration file for the maximum RAM limit in XP would be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” \/fastdetect \/PAE \/3GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This enables the PAE mode and Windows XP would use 4Gb RAM, but only with software that supports this Windows PAE mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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