i downgraded from windows Vista to XP. my 4 gigs of ram went to 2.99. and is there a way to make sure my computer is using all of the ram, processing speed, video card, anything to make my computer run faster?
Six answers:
Masked Marauder
2009-07-04 12:25:05 UTC
That is the most Windows XP will recognize.
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2009-07-04 19:30:14 UTC
You were using a 64-bit version of Vista, and then installed a 32-bit version of XP. To use the RAM, the computer assigns a number to every block of memory. With a 32-bit system, the OS (any OS, not just Windows) runs out of numbers somewhere between 3 and 4 GB of RAM. With the 64-bit system, the limit is much higher.
troubled1367
2009-07-04 19:29:29 UTC
Your computer is using all 4GB of RAM the other 1.01 GB of RAM is being used in Shared Video memory and the Kernel. If you are concerned about this you may want to consider XP x64 which is the 64 bit version of windows XP.
Kara B
2009-07-04 19:30:24 UTC
3Gigs is the most that XP will recognize. You are better off going back to Vista, once you learn it, it is alot better than XP. It is also much more stable than XP.