[RESOLVED] windows 7 & XP mode - memory question

[terryZ]

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.

[Midknyte]

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

[Train]

Try increasing the virtual memeory.

[terryZ]

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.

[Train]

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.

[terryZ]

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).

[Train]

Got it.