On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:02:12 -0400, wrote:
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And how’s it feel now with 4 gigs of ram, and knowing you wasted most of the money on a scam telling you how great it was ?
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Not really.
It’s true that the /3gb switch does not work for all sytems, but it’s worth experimenting with, and no harm no foul if you plan a way to boot up and put the old boot.ini back. If you bought a memory stick you didn’t need, set it up as a ram disk and have Photoshop use it, and see if that speeds things up. Memory is cheap in any case.
On my XP pro system, /3GB does work, and makes it possible to open extremely large images in Photoshop, even with only 2Gb of ram installed.
Here’s how my boot.ini is set up – it gives me a choice at boot time, so it is easy for me to switch back and forth. You may need to use different options than I did, and be prepared to back out of the experiment if it doesn’t work.
(watch for split lines)
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /fastdetect /3GB /USERVA=2944 /NoExecute=OptIn
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Mike Russell –
http://www.curvemeister.com