XP Hogging My Memory

Any VM based OS should eat every byte of RAM. Here's an article that explains it. -> http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

?Free RAM is wasted RAM?.

Nothing busted here. To limit XP's memory to 1GB there is a limit memory in MSCONFIG but that's just as bad as installing only 1GB!

Bob

XP is designed to limit applications to only 2GB RAM. As RAM became cheap some wanted more for their apps. Here's some articles about it and how to enable another GB.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/05/208908.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721 notes it DOES apply to XP. You need to know this since some articles you find will not list XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328269 notes you need SP2.

By now you have all the clues you need.

Bob