please guys help me... My windows 7-32bit is just using 2.96 GB instead of 4GB RAM installed on my laptop. Please don't tell me to move to 64bit as I dun want to. Please tell me some other solution, like a patch called Ready for 4GB available on the net or some settings by which we can enable windows utilize full 4GB RAM.
There are none! That is purely a limitation of the address space available to 32 bit windows! Some people are even limited by more RAM. Also, if your RAM is shared ram, the video RAM takes a chunk of your system memory. People may say there is Physical Address Extension. But its so unreliable Microsoft has disabled it in the normal windows, AND the manufacturer of you laptop has to support it too in the bios which they probably don't...
Why don't you want to go to 64-bit? Your programs will most definitely work and you'll forget you're even running 64-bit.
Use Windows 64, if that doesn't help, some chipsets are known for hogging a LOT of RAM if you have 4gb (Intel 945 at the top of my head, for example), so you should look into that, since moving to x64 won't change a thing. Like burfadel said, check how much memory is being shared by your video card. Bloodbat
You also have to make certain you have a 64-bit Processor. This is a non-issue for a recent laptop and moreso for if it is 3-4 years old.
there is a software you can install to get all your 4gb going. i forgot what its called ill try to remember and post back later
64bit win7, is alot better then 64bit winvista or 64bit winxp. Change change version, like others said, and you'll be fine.
For your reference only(pictures) **I had hack the 32bit Win7 kernel by myself without using "Ready for 4GB" & I'm still using the hacked kernel since Vista.
what's the reason u don't want to use win7 64bit ? 99% of win32 apps work on win7 64 it's not xp 64 that was crap. + the security of win7 64 is really better cause of the signed drivers and the guardian kernel. now if your hardware is too old...
i hear that adobe flash does not work with win 64bit. is this true? what are the substitutes then for this?
Well you don't need it for 64 Bit ... Here are the upper RAM limits for the different editions of Windows 7 64Bit: Starter: 8GB Home Basic: 8GB Home Premium: 16GB Professional: 192GB Enterprise: 192GB Ultimate: 192GB
It works in a 64 bit OS just not in a 64 bit web browser. It works fine in 32 bit IE,FF,Opera etc.. in W7 x64
It's called the /PAE switch. And NO ! This only let's windows be aware of more than 4gb mem, but you still won't be able to use it. In addition, it can cause kernel instability and data corruption. The 4gig limitation is A PHYSYSICAL LIMITATION of the 32bit architecture. And as a certain amount of that 4gigs get's reserved for allocation of your graphic mem and certain devices,etc...u will be left with about 3gigs to be allocated for your system ram. NOTHING that can be done about that, except move to x64.