XP Home: more than 256kRAM a waste?

Check your friends eyes...if they are brown then that confirms that he is
full of sh*t; If they are not brown it is because he is now a quart low
after the huge load he just gave you. windows can use up to 4GB of RAM; but
your mobo probably only supports 2GB or less.

Bobby

"Mike Smith" <michael.smith@minot.af.mil> wrote in message
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> Quick question: I was going to upgrade my RAM from 512k to
> 1gb on my XP Home machine and a friend claims that
> anything more than 256kRAM is a waste because XP Home can
> only use 256kRAM. He says I'll have to upgrade to XP Pro
> to use any more RAM. Is that true?
>
> Thanks...

PMSL - I may have to steal that. ;-)

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> Check your friends eyes...if they are brown then that confirms that he is
> full of sh*t; If they are not brown it is because he is now a quart low
> after the huge load he just gave you. windows can use up to 4GB of RAM;

but

> your mobo probably only supports 2GB or less.
>
> Bobby
>
> "Mike Smith" <michael.smith@minot.af.mil> wrote in message
> news:0a6a01c36748$38aec570$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> > Quick question: I was going to upgrade my RAM from 512k to
> > 1gb on my XP Home machine and a friend claims that
> > anything more than 256kRAM is a waste because XP Home can
> > only use 256kRAM. He says I'll have to upgrade to XP Pro
> > to use any more RAM. Is that true?
> >
> > Thanks...

>
>

Mike Smith wrote:

>Quick question: I was going to upgrade my RAM from 512k to
>1gb on my XP Home machine and a friend claims that
>anything more than 256kRAM is a waste because XP Home can
>only use 256kRAM. He says I'll have to upgrade to XP Pro
>to use any more RAM. Is that true?

No it is not. The limitations of Home and Pro are identical in this
area. But that is not to say that the upgrade will do you any good.
That depends on the workload you impose on it, of *active* programs.
Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm and try the tool linked to find
how much page file you are actually using when you don't load things and
leave them parked in case they may be wanted. Unless there is
significant use (not just 20MB or so) adding RAM will do you no good


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