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Can I force Vista to reserve some free memory?



 
 
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Old October 17th 09, 11:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
craigr
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Default Can I force Vista to reserve some free memory?


I'm on a HP, running 64 bit Vista. 2.1GHz Dual Core, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM.
(I don't really speak "computer" very well)

I am trying to run some 10 year old software. It installed fine, but
when I try to run it the program first does a check to make sure I have
enough available RAM. When it checks my Free RAM it says I have -130MB
of Free RAM and the program won't even try to start.

Now - I understand from reading these forums that VISTA ties up all
available RAM. Is there a way to tell VISTA to keep some 80MB or so
free so that my software will start?

Thanks.


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