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June 27th 09, 08:55 AM
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Hello
Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen 
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June 27th 09, 09:49 AM
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Adding more memory to your computer will only increase performance if it
needed the added memory in the first place. Windows does not require optimization or reconfiguration to use added memory, it simply will. "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message news  Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen
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June 27th 09, 09:52 AM
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"JB" wrote: Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen As you probably already know Vista 32 bit does not support 4GB ram, you can have it installed but it cannot make use of all of it. please also read how to increase performance in Vista: http://www.hd720i.com/How-to-increas...ce-260752.aspx Sent via Microsoft technology people portal http://www.hd720i.com/Ram-performance-279236.aspx
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June 27th 09, 11:25 AM
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Alama wrote:
"JB" wrote: Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen As you probably already know Vista 32 bit does not support 4GB ram, you can have it installed but it cannot make use of all of it. That is wrong. It supports 4GB and uses all of it. What is available for program usage is less than the total 4GB.
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June 27th 09, 01:17 PM
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"JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message
news Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen Some processes benefit from more memory, and others are dependant on CPU performance. You should be able to have more stuff open at any one time, and your machine will not use the pagefile as much. You may not perceive much difference but your computer will benefit. You should keep the pagefile, leave it where it is, and set it for System Managed -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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June 27th 09, 01:54 PM
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Thank you everyone.
"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote in message ... "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message news Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen Some processes benefit from more memory, and others are dependant on CPU performance. You should be able to have more stuff open at any one time, and your machine will not use the pagefile as much. You may not perceive much difference but your computer will benefit. You should keep the pagefile, leave it where it is, and set it for System Managed -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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June 27th 09, 02:15 PM
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I ran Vista 32 bit and am now running Win7 with 1GB of memory on my wireless
laptop. I normally have 4-6 applications open some of which get updates over the internet every couple of minutes. Unless you are running video editing or file format conversion programs I don't think you would notice any improvement with the extra memory it would just keep more data in disk cache which you probably never will need to load back in. 32 bit Vista can not itself use all of the 4GB since it has to provide memory address space to your graphics card for the memory it has onboard and which it will use for some graphic card operations and address space to any other hardware controllers with their own onboard memory. "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message news Hello Vista 32 bit I've just upgraded my laptop to 4 Gb RAM. Haven't seen any difference. Can anyone point me in the right direction how to optimize my system for the 4 gb ram. I saw somewhere that the pagefile should be in a separate partition, another mentioned windows managed setting. All very confusing. Thanks Jen
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