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I found this on the interwebs, and I was wondering, how well does this work? I figure there are people here who know windows pretty well who might be able to explain this, and any "catch" that might exist with the workaround.
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I wonder if it actually works. Technically speaking 32bit OS can handle 4gb but windows 32 has never been able to.
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The Workaround

I found this on the interwebs, and I was wondering, how well does this work? I figure there are people here who know windows pretty well who might be able to explain this, and any "catch" that might exist with the workaround.
Issues are performance hit since OS has to use a look aside table and system corruption if drivers writing to the wrong memory area. Here's the MS article on issues: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...ae_os.mspx#EID
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