Boot.ini - a question

miker1 · 3 Sep 2008 at 13:00

As I now have 4gb memory on my XP system [ RMA'd 2gb pair and had to buy 2gb while waiting...]
, is it worth putting the "/3gb" option on multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Cheers Mike

miker1 · 3 Sep 2008 at 17:29

blastman said:
the /3GB switch is for certain applications to be able to use the extra memory. It won't give you an extra gig for general use in windows, so no.

Thanks - I should have guessed that it wouldn't help me!

So its wait 'till Vista then.

miker1 · 4 Sep 2008 at 07:42

d.chatten said:
Vista 32bit has the same limitations as XP 32bit, you would need Vista/XP 64bit to take advantage of 4GB of ram.

THAT I didn't know! I thought ALL Vista allowed more memory as it is memory hungry!

miker1 · 4 Sep 2008 at 15:05

BTW What is the max mem on V64?