RE: Win 2K RAM modification

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

Don't bother. According to that KB article, the /3gb switch only shrinks the
kernel space from 2GB to 1GB, so that programmers can make sure their device
drivers work in that mode, but it doesn't actually increase the user space
from 2GB to 3GB unless you're running Advanced Server. So it won't help.

But what are you (or whoever the original poster was) trying to accomplish?
Give a single application more virtual address space to run in, or give the
entire system more physical RAM to run in? If the former, then Win2K
Advanced Server would be necessary, and it would be able to do this even if
you didn't have that much physical memory, since it's virtual memory that's
being repartitioned, not physical memory. If that latter, I'm pretty sure
that Win2K Pro can make use of the full 4GB of RAM, which will be shared
among all programs in the system, including the kernel, even though a single
program can't use more than 2GB.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: peegee@btinternet.com
>
> got this URL for changing W2K to 4Gb:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q291988
>
> if anyone can translate it into simple steps for me, a 'puter
> simpleton, I'd be grateful. or if they do it and it works,(or
> not) I'd like some feedback too,

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