Is now quite the rare topic.
Let's go over that it was not enabled in a stock install so I'll supply an example link.
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/emsxp.html
Let me be clear this is far off the beaten path and if you own a system and software that uses Expanded Memory System (EMS) then you must be conversant and ready to go in and turn it back on.
This is not automatic and quite the old thing that is now dead and gone.
Bob
Does anyone know if the most recent Windows Update for Win XP is likely to have affected access to expanded memory?
I was using an spreadsheet program a couple of days ago, available memory 4015k, now after update 104k
Thanks

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