Ensure your page file is being managed by win, check that the sys actually
sees 2gb
Win2k or winxp cannot utilise 4gb
"Keith G Hicks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a Win2k Pro SP4 machine with an AMD processor that's about 4 or 5
> years old I think. I'd have to look it up to be sure. The processor is
> around 1.2 GHz so it's not fast by today's standards. I'm running Visual
> Web
> Developer now and SQL Express so I needed some extra power. VWD is really
> slow to develop in. I bumped the RAM up from 1GB to 2GB and have noticed
> little difference. I was afraid of that. If I run the performance monitor
> and open a bunch of apps like Office tools, Photoshop, VWD, Access,
> Outlook
> and anything else I can think of that uses a lot of resources, the memory
> meter never goes above about 800KB. Even if I run a resource hog filter in
> photoshop on a large file I still don't hit 800KB. But many operations in
> variuos programs peg the CPU to 100% until they're done. I have plenty of
> empty HDD space. I know I need to upgrade my MB and CPU at some point soon
> but it's not in the budget right now and of course then I have to
> reinstall
> everyting and that's VERY time consuming. So I've put it off. The question
> I
> have is, is there some way to make Windows 2k take advantage of more
> memory?
> I've hunted around and not found the info I think I need on this. It's not
> exactly my area of expertise either. I read that Win2k Sp4 can use up to
> 4GR
> RAM and my MIS MB can go up to 2. So I'm at the max on the MB. Any info
> would be greatly appreciated. Even if it's just, "well you're stuck and
> won't see much benefit unless you upgrade the rest of your system."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
> (oh, and if anyone can recommend a better forum or newsgroup for asking
> this, please don't hesitate to let me know as I wasn't sure this was the
> best place)
>
>
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