Comments on: Vista SP1 and the Red Herring (+ breaking the 32bit 4Gb limit) http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/ Warning, may or may not contain nuts.... Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:35:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: whyamistilltyping http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/#comment-497 whyamistilltyping Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:49:47 +0000 http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-497 Virtual harddrive? Where was the memory 'borrowed' from? Its not like virtual RAM :) Virtual harddrive? Where was the memory ‘borrowed’ from? Its not like virtual RAM :)

]]> By: oregonnerd http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/#comment-488 oregonnerd Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:00:58 +0000 http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-488 The one workaround that was used in the early 80s (8086 processor was all the rage) was a virtual hard drive...which had some interesting caveats all its own. ...God, I hate computers. Addicted, too. Since 1971. --Glenn The one workaround that was used in the early 80s (8086 processor was all the rage) was a virtual hard drive…which had some interesting caveats all its own.

…God, I hate computers. Addicted, too. Since 1971.
–Glenn

]]> By: whyamistilltyping http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/#comment-437 whyamistilltyping Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:53:09 +0000 http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-437 Kailm, interesting idea from the article. In a nutshell, you are replacing key files from within Windows Vista with Windows Server 2008. This extends the functionality of PAE which I talked about in my post to remove the synthetic 4Gb limit in Vista 32bit. Whilst it is an interesting idea I would not recommend trying it, system stability is far more important to me than living on the bleeding edge when it comes to OSes. Also, strictly speaking it is not legal, whilst you can download the ISO images from Microsoft, you still do not have a right to use the files without paying for a license. Server 2008 works like Vista in that you can evaluate it for a few days without purchasing it but that doesn't mean its ok to harvest files from it. Kailm, interesting idea from the article. In a nutshell, you are replacing key files from within Windows Vista with Windows Server 2008. This extends the functionality of PAE which I talked about in my post to remove the synthetic 4Gb limit in Vista 32bit. Whilst it is an interesting idea I would not recommend trying it, system stability is far more important to me than living on the bleeding edge when it comes to OSes.

Also, strictly speaking it is not legal, whilst you can download the ISO images from Microsoft, you still do not have a right to use the files without paying for a license. Server 2008 works like Vista in that you can evaluate it for a few days without purchasing it but that doesn’t mean its ok to harvest files from it.

]]> By: kailm http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/#comment-436 kailm Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:59:05 +0000 http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-436 it is possible dont believe the MS hoax guys this is just a microsoft hide me problem! it is possible to use upto 64gb in vista 32 just like the server editions you just need to do this http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how-to-enable-use-and-support-4gb-or-more-physical-ram-memory-in-32-bit-windows-vista/ guys confirmed it works. of course if you use any hack the tokens.dat file gets replaced for activation. you have to use timer stop for this... windows 2008 iso is readily available so its not illegal! there are also hyperv images available u can get the files from! it is possible dont believe the MS hoax

guys this is just a microsoft hide me problem!
it is possible to use upto 64gb in vista 32 just like the server editions
you just need to do this

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how-to-enable-use-and-support-4gb-or-more-physical-ram-memory-in-32-bit-windows-vista/

guys confirmed it works.

of course if you use any hack the tokens.dat file gets replaced for activation.
you have to use timer stop for this…

windows 2008 iso is readily available so its not illegal!
there are also hyperv images available u can get the files from!

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]]> By: clinton http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/vista-sp1-and-the-red-herring-breaking-the-32bit-4gb-limit/#comment-386 clinton Thu, 29 May 2008 19:50:15 +0000 http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-386 So there is no wiggle room around this 3.5 gb barrier in vista? damn. i have the 32-bit vista :-( Oh well, as soon as I get a bigger hard drive, i'm going to make it into a dual boot OS of some ubuntu flavor and vista or ubuntu and xp. :-Þ I much prefer xp of vista. The only thing i can say i like much more in vista is the start menu. But really, that isn't saying much if i plan on migrating to linux to do most of my computing less photoshopping. So there is no wiggle room around this 3.5 gb barrier in vista? damn. i have the 32-bit vista :-(

Oh well, as soon as I get a bigger hard drive, i’m going to make it into a dual boot OS of some ubuntu flavor and vista or ubuntu and xp. :-Þ

I much prefer xp of vista. The only thing i can say i like much more in vista is the start menu. But really, that isn’t saying much if i plan on migrating to linux to do most of my computing less photoshopping.

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