[RESOLVED] windows 7 & XP mode - memory question

as the title says, i'm running windows 7 professional (32 bit) with an XP mode. i currently have 3gb memory on 2 sticks (2 slots only on the motherboard).

i have 512mb memory allocated to the xp mode. i'm thinking of increasing it since i sometimes have problems with "low memory" messages in the xp (especially when updating avg which i run there).

however, i can buy two new memory sticks to give me 4gb of memory.

my question is this:

since 7 can only see 3gb of memory, if i increase the memory to 4gb and i set xp to see 1g, will they effectively be using their "own" memory or will they still be competing for the same 3gb?

thanks in advance.

XP mode would only see whatever RAM the host OS sees. Increasing to 4GB would not help.

Try increasing the virtual memeory.

thanks, midknyte and train. not what i wanted to hear tho lol.

i did change the virtual memory to 768. i'll see what happens with this setting.

I am running Sasc Paint Shop Pro ver 7.0 in Vista, Win 7 and Win 10.
Yes, it is the old Win 98 /2000 version
R-clicked the shortcut and selected properties
Select the compatabilty tab, Set it to XP SP3 and runs just spiffy.

https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2015/03/1.png

thanks for the suggestion, train, but this is in regards to running legacy qbasic programs in xp (http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...7-with-xp-mode).

Got it.