Windows 7 - Maximum Supported RAM is 192 GB
Windows 7 will take the maximum amount of supported system memory well beyond the limits of Windows Vista.
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27.4.2009 Maximum Hardware Specifications for Small Notebook PC (Netbook) on Windows 7 Starter (and Home Basic in China)
Microsoft has a list of Windows 7 minimum recommended system hardware specification requirement for desktop, notebook, netbook, nettop, laptop computer and tablet PC that intends to run any versions and editions of Windows 7.
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23.7.2009 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computers memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Windows 7 RTM chkdsk memory issue isnt a showstopper
Windows 7 RTM contains what appears to be a memory leak bug that occurs when the chkdsk /R command is initiated on a non-system volume.
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8.8.2009 Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
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8.9.2009 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Windows 7 RTM ReadyBoost 256 GB of Memory Cache Support
Users running the latest iteration of the Windows client will be able to add an extra 256 GM of memory cache in order to handle the overload on the physical RAM installed on their computers.
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12.10.2009 Vista Out of Memory errors
You just cant seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox 360 Memory Unit
t's about time Microsoft announced that 512MB Memory Unit, which will land at $49 and at the outset come preloaded with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (huzzah!).
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5.3.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 Samsung Announced Worlds First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.
This experiment graphs the
memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera)
over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory
usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory
usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS.
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21.06.2009Nokia launches N97, an advanced mobile computer
Nokia showed off its latest piece of hardware to the market today, the Nokia N97. Nokia calls this smartphone an advanced mobile computer, with 32GB
of memory, supporting up to a maximum of 48GB of storage, a 5.0 megapixel camera attached to it, including a full QWERTY keyboard, running Symbian S60
Operating System, and also a touchscreen for users alike to enjoy. The phone is filled with features from both 2G and 3G network, to its Wi-fi 802.11
b/g UPnP technology, to its 16M colour 3.5 inch (360 x 640 pixels) touch screen. The phone also supports microSD (TransFlash) memory cards, with a
maximum of 16GB added storage, Bluetooth and USB support.
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03.12.2008Sony, SanDisk plan to make 2TB Memory Sticks
SDXC format is just not good enough. So, Sony and SanDisk have just announced that they plan to offer a new format for their jointly built memory
stick. The format is tentatively dubbed "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity".
This new format can reach 2TB and neither
company has released much more information than that.
In addition to the 2TB memory card format announcement; they are working on a new
Memory Stick HG Micro format, which promises to boast a blazing 60MB/s maximum data transfer speed.
There has been no indication of a
release date for either announcement. The companies are only saying that format licensing for both new formats is "scheduled to start in 2009".
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09.01.2009Hotmail's maximum storage size increases to 500 GB
As part of its Wave 3 update announced back in 2008, Windows Live Hotmail was to have "ever increasing storage", and now as reported by LiveSide,
the current maximum mailbox size for Hotmail is 500 GB, and this includes e-mail accounts as part of Windows Live Admin Center, Office Live, and MSN
Premium. The new maximum size is shown in the two screenshots below courtesy of PicturePan2 from LiveSino: Screenshot from MSN Explorer where you
check your inbox folder sizes. It shows the max size being 512000 MB (Note: 512000 MB translates to 500 GB). Screenshot from Office Outlook
Connector, where it shows you the size of your Hotmail mailbox. It too shows the max size being 500 GB.
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21.07.2009Intel 'Turbo Memory' tries to speed up Windows
Intel's newest version of Turbo Memory is trying to do what Windows doesn't do: transparently optimize Windows for flash memory storage.
At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. Intel will be demonstrating its
latest version of Turbo Memory based on flash memory to accelerate
application performance in Windows.
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14.08.2008Buffalo Touts 1200MHz, 1250MHz DDR2 Memory Modules
Buffalo Technology, a
well-known supplier of memory
modules from Austin, Texas, is
expected to unveil memory
modules at 1200MHz and 1250MHz
in the near future, according
to reports from Japan. The
company already sells 1150MHz
Firestix-series memory
modules, which are already the
fastest in the industry and
have slightly higher
clock-speed than leading-edge
products from Corsair Memory
and OCZ Technology Group.
Akiba PC Hotline
reports that Buffalo initiated
sales of Firestix 1150MHz
memory modules in Tokyo,
Japan, whereas CFD Sales, a
distributor of Buffalo, claims
that the company also will
shortly start sales of 1200MHz
memory modules, while 1250MHz
memory sticks are also
planned. Earlier it was
claimed that 1200MHz is
absolute maximum for DDR2
memory under normal
conditions, but Buffalo's new
Firestix do not require any
exotic cooling systems and
come with typical
heat-spreaders.
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30.10.2006Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” that
will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
The
alleged Windows 7 netbook specs were published earlier this month on
the TechARP technology enthusiast site.
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22.05.2009Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager
Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the
quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about fixing memory leaks, it involved solving memory fragmentation issues as well,
as Windows and most other operating system allocates memory in blocks and may not "see" small enough fragments of memory as usable in practice.
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12.03.2008Ramsans 2 TB rack of flash memory
Need a few terabytes of really
fast storage? Texas Memory
Systems will be able to solve
that need in a few months with
their upcoming RAMSAN-500 box
that can hold up to 2 TB of
Flash memory along with a
maximum of 64 GB of DDR2
memory.
The flash memory is the
primary storage for the 4U
high rack-mountable box while
the DDR2 acts as a very fast
data buffer. The back of the
500 can have multiple
Fibrechannel or Infiniband
outputs.
At the Siggraph convention
in San Diego California, Texas
Memory Systems Executive Vice
President Woody Hutsell told
us that the device is
primarily used for read
intensive data bases and video
editing (hence the presence at
Siggraph). Big movie
companies could story their
source video footage on the
RAMSAN-500 and then have teams
of editors edit the footage
simultaneously thanks to read
latencies of just 0.15 ms and
a 0.5 ms write time.
Hutsell told us
that the RAMSAN-500 will be
available sometime in the
fourth quarter. The company
will still sell its 400 model
which uses all DDR memory.
Hutsell added that huge drop
in flash memory prices in the
past years have made the 500
series much more affordable
than other DDR-only storage
boxes. This will probably be
$200,000 per terabyte on the
high side, he said.
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10.08.2007How long does it take to create a 16TB file?
Although
the theoretical maximum file size on NTFS is 2
64−1 clusters,
the current implementation of the NTFS driver supports files
up
to "only" 16TB minus 64KB.
(In other words, the disk format supports files up to
2
64−1 clusters,
but the
current drivers won't go above 16TB−64KB.)
Back in 2002,
in order to verify that the drivers did indeed support files
as big as their design maximum,
the NTFS test team sat down,
created a volume slightly bigger than 16TB,
and then created a file of
the maximum supported size,
filling it with a known pattern.
After the file was successfully created,
they then ran another program that
read the entire file back into
memory and verified that the contents were correct.
(They ran other tests, too, of course, but those are the
ones that
are important to this story.)
How long did it take to create this nearly-16TB file?
Around
three days.
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04.12.2007Reclaim Memory by Mastering Windows' Task Manager
The best way to speed up your PC is to give it more available memorybut freeing up as much of the memory you already have is cheaper and easier than
cracking open your case to
install a
new stick of RAM. It takes a lot of memory to get a modern Windows system up and ... well, not doing anything in particular, really. Between
cryptic system processes, confusing "helper" applications, and background utilities, a whole lot of who-knows-what gobbles up memory and slows down
your work. While a lot of programs claim to optimize memory use and pare down processes, Windows' built-in Task Manager can do the job just fine,
given the right tools and know-how. Today you'll extend and empower Windows' Task Manager to speed up your system by cutting out unnecessary memory
hogs.
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15.02.2008August 2007 Bulletin Release Advance Notification
Next Tuesday, Microsoft are
currently planning to release
nine security
bulletins:
- Six
Microsoft Security Bulletins
affecting Microsoft Windows
with a Maximum Severity rating
of Critical. These updates
will require a restart and
will be detectable using the
Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer and the Enterprise
Scan Tool.
- One
Microsoft Security Bulletins
affecting Microsoft Office
with a Maximum Severity rating
of Critical. These updates
will not require a restart and
will be detectable using the
Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer.
- One
Microsoft Security Bulletin
affecting Microsoft Office and
Microsoft Windows a Maximum
Severity rating of Critical.
This update will require a
restart and will be detectable
using the Microsoft Baseline
Security Analyzer.
-
One Microsoft Security
Bulletin affecting Microsoft
Virtual PC and Microsoft
Virtual Server with a Maximum
Severity rating of Important.
This update will require a
restart and will be detectable
using the Microsoft Baseline
Security Analyzer and the
Enterprise Scan
Tool.
Remember that here
were providing the maximum
severity for any of the
updates per product. Specific
details about severity
per-bulletin as well as
additional details about the
affected versions can be found
in the Advance Notification
posted on the web.
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10.08.2007Apple Adds iPod Max Volume
Setting
In an effort to shield itself
from possible legal action,
Apple announced the
availability of a software
update Wednesday that can set
a maximum volume setting on
the iPod. The update is
available for fifth generation
iPods and the iPod nano.
Furthermore, parents could
also set a maximum volume
setting and lock it...
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29.03.2006Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
There are several
relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide we will put special emphasis on the hard drive, processor and RAM, taking you
through a variety of settings to optimally configure these and hopefully end up with an overall smoother running system.
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23.10.2007Lexar to put Wi-Fi on a memory card
The memory chip manufacturer will use technology from Eye-Fi to add network connectivity for users of its own memory cards...
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11.01.2008Tracing the memory leak: Is it Firefox 3?
Yesterday, we mentioned that we've been noticing recent versions of Firefox, including 3.0.5, have exhibited the memory leak problems that used to
plague Firefox 2. We are noticing this on both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1.
We'd also noticed that systems where the add-on Tab Mix Plus
was installed, did not appear to exhibit the same memory leak. Today, we uninstalled Tab Mix Plus (reluctantly, because we like it) from one system.
On that system, the memory use pattern has
changed, perhaps moderated, though we're not sure the leak has gone away. It now appears to be
slower than in our tests yesterday, and from time to time, something in Firefox does clean up parts of memory from time to time. In one test,
we had two Firefox windows open with seven tabs open in one of them, a dozen in the other -- a pretty full slate. Task Manager is showing us that
Firefox grabs memory in one-megabyte chunks per second, for about a minute at a time, and then leveling back out to about 300,000 KB.
So if
it's not a leak right now, at least it's a
fight, and we'll let you know what else we find...
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20.01.2009Identifying 32-bit Kernel Memory Issues
Clint Huffman: I'm a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) and I go onsite with customers on a regular basis to conduct Health Checks. This is my first blog
posting on TechNet, but I figured it would be on something important versus "Hello World". ;-)
More and more I am seeing
customers who are not aware of kernel memory issues on the 32-bit Windows architecture. If you are running 32-bit Windows 2000 or 32-bit Windows 2003,
then check the kernel memory. Lack of kernel memory can lead to system-wide hangs which seem unexplainable, so this is a serious issue. Always
generally use and/or recommend 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 server to avoid these issues (Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista have automatically
adjusting kernel memory pool sizes). This issue and other performance issues are addressed in the Vital Signs workshop (written by Shane Creamer),
which can be delivered by my team, Premier Field Engineering (PFE) - just contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) if you are interested in this
course.
Here is a kernel memory chart for Windows 2003 Server...
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02.10.2007Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer
Maximum PC: It all started while we were researching an article on future user interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at this point, but
multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the iPhone is just starting to become a big deal, and we decided to see what big things are going
on in that field. What we found that surprised us the most wasnt anything about the future of multitouch; it was about something that people are doing
right now ...
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07.04.2009New Qimonda GDDR5 Memory Promises 3x Performance of GDDR3
In advance of its likely acceptance by JEDEC as an international standard for memory implementations, Qimonda said today it is now sampling the first
Graphics Double Data Rate 5 memory in 512 Mb modules...
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01.11.2007The Ultimate Intel Core i7 Memory Performance Guide
Today we are going to look at how various memory frequencies, timings, and configurations influence the memory bandwidth and the real-world
performance of Core i7 processors. This is particularly important to not only help you get the most out of your Core i7 CPU, but to potentially save
you a lot of money. After all, it is possible to configure a Core i7 processor with triple-channel memory operating at 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz, or
even faster. But what are the benefits of using more aggressively clocked memory? With the new Core i7 platform, DDR3 should finally get its chance
to shine. As noted before, the Core i7 features an on-die memory controller with support for triple-channel DDR3 memory.
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