Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Utilize 3 Gig of Ram in Windows XP



As a computer user, you must be looking for different ways of Windows XP Support as it is still quite a popular operating system. Under normal conditions the operating system has the capability to handle around 2 gigabytes of memory space but if certain changes are made to the booting program it is possible to increase it to a level of 4. But how should you go about it. With the following tips you can just do it at your home without the help of an expert. Let’s have a look at the given set of tips.

1. On your desktop just double click on the Icon where My Computer is written.
2. Then just click twice on the C drive.
3. You should then click twice on the Boot.ini" file which is located at the base of the main hard drive of Windows. Since the file is available in a format of plain text, the notepad will show up automatically.
4. Add "/3GB" after the statement of operating system For example, the following statement makes 3GB of memory available to Windows XP:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows XP" /3GB
You can also use "/4GB" in this statement if you have the same number of memory installed.
5. After all these steps are done, you just need to reboot your PC and save the file. Surely the level of memory will increase.

Get going with expanded memory in your Windows XP operating system.

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