Wrong amount of RAM shown on Properties Window in XP
I have 8GB of Ram and the Properties shown I only have 2.75GB on XP1 person needs an answerI do too
June 15th, 2010 4:48am

I assume you're running tne x86 (32-bit) version of XP... Check out the following:The RAM reported by the System Properties dialog box and the System Information tool is less than you expect in Windows Vista or in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later versionPushing the Limits of Windows: Physical MemoryMemory Limits for Windows Releases
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June 15th, 2010 6:03am

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:48:26 +0000, pomps_1 wrote: > I have 8GB of Ram and the Properties shown I only have 2.75GB on XP All 32-bit client versions of Windows (not just Vista/XP/7) have a 4GBaddress space (64-bit versions can use much more). That's thetheoretical upper limit beyond which you can not go. But you can't use the entire 4GB of address space. Even though youhave a 4GB address space, you can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM.That's because some of that space is used by hardware and is notavailable to the operating system and applications. The amount you canuse varies, depending on what hardware you have installed, but canrange from as little as 2GB to as much as 3.5GB. It's usually around3.1GB (you are slightly under that). Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actualRAM itself. If you have a greater amount of RAM, the rest of the RAMgoes unused because there is no address space to map it to. Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Ken Blake
June 15th, 2010 7:05am

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