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Originally Posted by darkphantom
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Thanks, I work with Solaris and AIX all day. They are usually a little less brain dead when it comes to this sort of thing, so sometimes I forget about the dumb ways in which MS sometimes chooses to do things. It seems that might have changed with SP1 though:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946003/
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After you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), the memory (RAM) value reported by Windows Vista may increase if the following conditions are true:
* The system BIOS has reserved physical memory for graphics or for other peripherals.
* Your computer has more than 3 GB of system memory installed.
This change occurs because Windows Vista with SP1 reports how much physical memory installed on your computer. All versions of Windows NT-based operating systems before Windows Vista Service SP1 report how much memory available to the operating system. This change in Windows Vista SP1 is a reporting change only.
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Either way, the original reporting was defective by design.