Windows 7 RAM question

[Kwakazaki]

I have trawled the web and Microsoft's site, but cannot get a definitive answer regards memory for Win 7 32 bit. For XP there was a BIOS switch to make more than the standard available, maxing out at ~3.2Gb. Does that same switch exist under Win 7, or is this now automatically taken care of?

Many thanks,

 

[Nibiru2012]

I have trawled the web and Microsoft's site, but cannot get a definitive answer regards memory for Win 7 32 bit. For XP there was a BIOS switch to make more than the standard available, maxing out at ~3.2Gb. Does that same switch exist under Win 7, or is this now automatically taken care of?

Many thanks,

You don't need to worry about a BIOS switch for Windows 7, for a 32-bit version the memory maxes out at 3.2 GB as you stated.

However, if you have say... 4GB of RAM installed why not just install Windows 7 64-bit version and utilize all of the RAM available?

Your system will run better and faster plus the bandwidth is double too.

 

[Kwakazaki]

Many thanks indeed, that is a big help,
The reason for not upgrading to 64 bit is platform application incompatibilities.... unfortunately...!
Otherwise we would,
Best regards,