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Wasn't PAE available for pretty much all versions starting from XP? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366796(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.m
by gabipurcaru 13y ago
Wasn't PAE available for pretty much all versions starting from XP? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366796(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
- acqq 13y agoPAE was turned on but the licensing control code made by Microsoft checked if it's a consumer version of the OS or if it's a server, and if it's a server which version, and based on this decided how many memory to give to 32-bit OS. Consumer versions remained limited to 4 GB. This is detailed in the analysis of Geoff Chappell: http://geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/license/memory.htm http://geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/license/memory.htm