Only 3gb Usable out of 4gb Memory in Windows 7

[ocean]

I had a problem which I never addressed in windows XP. I installed 4GB of ram, but my XP used to see only 3gb. Now I thought installing WIndows 7 would solve this, but no again only 3gb is usable out of the 4. Here is the specs of my machine, any help is appreciated.

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Running Windows 7 on following:

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Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7200 @2.53GHz

Installed Memory: 4.00 GB (3.00 GB Usable)

System type: 32-bit Operating System

Motherboard:Gigabyte mATX Intel G31 775 DDR2-800 GA-G31M-S2L

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Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT


Please Help.


Side questions for windows 7
1. Can i use vista drivers to install my monitor? because right now windows 7 sees it as pnp monitor, and on Dell's website my monitor drivers are not available for Windows 7 only for Vista. I have the Dell sp2208wfp
2. Can I use Google Chrome? the Vista version? for win 7?
3. Are there any tweaks that i can use in order to boost the performance for windows 7, it seems a bit slow on my machine.

Here are the results:
Windows Experience Index follows:
Processor: 5.9
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 6.8
Gaming Graphics:6.8
Primary hard disk:5.9
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Any help appreciated.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

I had a problem which I never addressed in windows XP. I installed 4GB of ram, but my XP used to see only 3gb. Now I thought installing WIndows 7 would solve this, but no again only 3gb is usable out of the 4. Here is the specs of my machine, any help is appreciated.

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Running Windows 7 on following:

Handwritten Letter Service

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7200 @2.53GHz

Installed Memory: 4.00 GB (3.00 GB Usable)

System type: 32-bit Operating System

Motherboard:Gigabyte mATX Intel G31 775 DDR2-800 GA-G31M-S2L

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Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT


Please Help.


Side questions for windows 7
1. Can i use vista drivers to install my monitor? because right now windows 7 sees it as pnp monitor, and on Dell's website my monitor drivers are not available for Windows 7 only for Vista. I have the Dell sp2208wfp
2. Can I use Google Chrome? the Vista version? for win 7?
3. Are there any tweaks that i can use in order to boost the performance for windows 7, it seems a bit slow on my machine.

Here are the results:
Windows Experience Index follows:
Processor: 5.9
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 6.8
Gaming Graphics:6.8
Primary hard disk:5.9
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Any help appreciated.

Hi ocean . It's because you have a x32 bit operating system & that is all. You'll probably have some what over 3 gigs of ram showing like I get in mine. I would not worry about it though 😉 . You can always reduce the amount of ram being used by system restore 😉 . Maybe 5% is all you need for system restore or even less.

 

[delasso]

hi im trying to install windows 7 64bit software but when i try to open the setup file this message pops up saying the version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows your running. but checked my computer and it says i can use 64bit. please help me out if anyone knows how i can install windows 7 64bit

 

[THE UNKNOWN]

You just need to do clean Install of 64bit

 

[davidmaxwaterman]

32-bit Linux can use more than 2GB of memory. It has this PAE - Physical Address Extension - that allows use of more than 4GB. The restriction is that each process can only use 2GB, so it is quite a valuable thing if you use many smaller application rather than one large one.

Wikipedia's PAE article says it is possible to run Windows 7 32-bit version with PAE enabled and get up to 64-GB, like with Linux, but mentions concerns about stability. I wonder if anyone here has tried it...