Is it possible to create extra RAM?

[barakita]

guys is it possible to create extra RAM either on a flash disk or a CD.

if there is a way to do that plz help me.

 

[Donnie Charlie]

what is your aim?

 

[SuperImpressor]

guys is it possible to create extra RAM either on a flash disk or a CD.

if there is a way to do that plz help me.

Unatumia window gani

 

[Zuia Sayayi]

Mkuu barakita umeulizwa una2mia window gani, cha ajabu umekaa kmya,
hlfu swal lenyewe umeliulza ucku wa manane,
me nlzan ukiamka asubuh utaptia hapa!
Mh!!!!,
maana
huu utaalam unatofautiana kulingana na window moja hadi wndw nyingine.

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

Faster Than an SSD: How to Turn Extra Memory Into a RAM Disk

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Whether you have a hard drive or an SSD, your computer’s RAM is its fastest storage medium by a wide margin. If you have more than 4GB of memory, you can turn this speed to your advantage, turning some of it into a small RAM Disk. This disk will appear to Windows as a fully-functional storage drive that’s ready to hold your most frequently-used applications and launch them as much as twice as fast.
What You Need

1. 6 or More GB of RAM:While you can use a RAM disk with any amount of memory in your system, we don’t recommend that you create one if you have 4GB or less. Whatever amount of memory you assign to the disk will be unavailable to the OS and, since 4GB is the minimum standard these days, you really need 6GB or more to have both a RAM disk and a reasonable amount of system memory available.Fortunately, if your computer takes DDR3 RAM — the standard type for more then 4 years — upgrading will be very inexpensive. An 8GB DDR3 kit (2 x 4GB) for notebooks costs less than $40 these days, but RAM that follows the older DDR2 standard is more expensive. If you don’t know which kind of RAM your computer needs, use an online memory finder tool to find out.
2. 64-bit Windows: To support more than 4GB of RAM in any PC, you need to be running a 64-bit version of Windows. Fortunately, most mid-range and higher Windows 7 computers sold in the past few years come with Windows 7 64-bit, even if they have only 3 or 4GB of memory preinstalled. If you don’t know whether your Windows is 64-bit, simply right click on the Computer icon and select properties.
   
3. RAM Disk Software: In addition to having enough RAM ,you need a piece of software that will create your RAM disk. There are a number of applications to choose from, but we’ll use the free version of DataRAM’s RAMDisk, because it’s easy to set up and supports up t0 4GB of storage space. A $18.99 paid version lets you create RAM disks larger than 4GB.

Setting Up Your RAM Disk

1. Install DataRAM RAMDisk. Just click next and “I agree” at the various prompts. There are no settings to configure during the install.
   
2. Launch RamDisk Configuration Utility from the Start Menu
   
3. Set the RAMDisk Size and Type under the settings tab. Since the size is set in megabyte, you’ll need to set it to 4092MB if you want a 4GB RAM Disk or 2046MB for a 2GB RAM Disk. Set the type to “unformatted.”
   
4. Enable Load Disk Image at Startup under the Load and Save tab. This will store the contents of your RAM disk on your hard or solid state drive so that they can reappear every time you power on your machine.
   
5. Configure the Save Image Settings. Enable Save Disk Image on Shutdown if you want the system to automatically save changes to your RAM Disk’s image file when you shut your computer down . You can also enable AutoSave, which will automatically write any changes to your image file on a regular basis (default is every 300 seconds).
   Though both of these settings make it easy to keep the image file in sync with the content, they can also slow your computer down. When we tried creating a 4GB RAM Disk on a notebook with a 7,200-rpm hard drive, the computer took several minutes to shut down, because it was saving the 4GB file.
6. However, when we switched the hard drive for an SSD, the same notebook took a more reasonable 54 seconds to shut down. So experiment on your system before deciding.
   
7. Fortunately, if you use your RAM disk to hold applications, you don’t need to resave the image file on a regular basis. When you install or update an application, you can manually save the image file by hitting the Save Image Now button under the Load and Save tab in the RamDisk configuration utility.
   
8. Click Start RAMDisk.
   
9. Click Install if you get a dialog box asking you whether you want to add a driver.
   
10. Click Format if asked to format the new disk. If the program doesn’t prompt you, locate the new drive letter in explorer and right click to Format.
    
11. Select NTFS as the file system , give your drive a label and click Format disk.
    

Your RAM disk will now be ready for you to install software on it. Make sure that, when installing programs you want to live on the disk, you select its drive letter rather than C:. You may also want to create a Program Files directory on the RAM disk to keep things organized.
How Much Faster is a RAM Disk?

To find out just how much speed benefit you get from a RAM Disk, we created a 4GB disk on an Ivy Bridge-powered Windows 7 notebook with a 750GB 7,20- rpm hard drive and 8GB of RAM. When we ran CrystalDiskMark, a synthetic benchmark that measures raw transfer rates, the speed difference was dramatic. Sequential read speeds were about 50x faster on the RAM Disk while writes were a whopping 70x faster, going from 109.3 MBps to 7,760 MBps. Even when compared to a speedy Kingston HyperX SH100S3 SSD, the RAM disk read 11 or 12x faster and wrote about 20x faster.


In real life, these speedy transfer speeds result in much faster application opens. To see the difference, we loaded four popular applications — Adobe Reader, Excel 2010, Photoshop CS 5.1 and Word 2010 — onto the hard drive, timed their open times and then

installed them on the RAM Disk instead. We then applied the same tests, using a speedy Kingston HyperX SH100S3 SSD instead of a hard drive in the same notebook.

Because most applications leave at least some of their files in a variety of folders on the C drive by default (ex: C:\Program Files\Common Files) none of these applications loaded completely from memory, even after we installed them to the RAM Disk.

Because part of the software, at least in our tests, remained on the storage drive, pairing the RAMDisk with an SSD proved the fastest option. However, even with the hard drive, the difference in launch times with the RAM disk was dramatic.

If you use applications that don’t write to any folder but C:\Program Files or if you’re able to move the entirety of your C:\Program Files\Common Files folder and your C:\Users folder over to the RAM Disk, you’ll achieve maximum performance with any storage drive

as everything will load from RAM. However, on a typical PC the Users and Common folders are so huge that you’d need a lot more than 4GB of available RAM Disk space to house them.

As you can see in the chart, using the RAM Disk with the hard drive cut load times in half. However, the SSD alone was noticeably faster than the HDD + RAM Disk combo in some cases, particularly when loading the heavy Photoshop CS 5.1 application. Considering that buying additional RAM is a lot cheaper than upgrading to SSD, many users may find the RAM Disk a cheaper option.

If you can possibly afford it, the combination of SSD with RAM Disk is simply unbeatable. With the two together, we were able to load Word 2010 in a mere .4 seconds, Photoshop with a giant TIF in just 4.8 seconds and Excel with a huge spreadsheet in just 1.9 seconds barakita

Application	HDD Only (sec)	HDD / RAM Disk (sec)	SSD Only (sec)	SSD w/ RAM Disk (sec)
Adobe Reader 10 (opening to large PDF)
Excel 2010 (opening to large spreadsheet)
Photoshop CS 5.1 (opening to 400MB TIF)
Word 2010

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3.6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3.5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3.1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] 4.1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3.7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1.9[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]22.1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9.7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5.5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4.8[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3.1[/TD]
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[TD="align: center"]0.8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]0.4[/TD]

 

[barakita]

samahanini wakuu..nilikuwa nimebanwa na kazi.. Mi natumia windows xp professional service pack 3

 

[barakita]

windows xp professional service pack 3
current ram ni 0.99Gb

 

[barakita]

lakini wanasema hawa recommend kama una less than 4gb of ram....mzizi mkuu

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

lakini wanasema hawa recommend kama una less than 4gb of ram....mzizi mkuu

Ndio mkuu barakita Kwa mfano Kuna ulazima gani tena mkuu wa kuongeza Ram wakati wewe unazo Ram 4GB? mmi ninazo RAM 4 lakini Windows Ultimate ninayotumia ina Support RAM 3 sasa kuna ulazima gani wa kuongeza RAM wakati Windows ninayotumia hai Support zaidi ya RAM 3 GB? Mkuu?

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

Use 4GB or more RAM with 32bit Windows 7 ultimate build 7600.

 

[barakita]

hapna siyo hivyo ram yangu ni 0.99 gb ila hayo maelezo uliyoyatoa yana sema kuwa siyo recommend kufanya hayo mautundu kama una less than 4gb

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

How To Enable More Than 4GB Memory in Windows Vista and Windows 7

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This article is written for 32 bit operating systems. Unless explicitly mentioned, Windows 7 and Vista refers to the 32 bit edition of the respective Operating Systems.

Couple of months back, I had blogged about a peculiar Windows 7 issue which could cause a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) if the system had 4GB (or more) RAM. I managed to find a fix for that issue. But, I had another minor niggle to figure out. Although I paid for 4GB of RAM, Windows refused to use more than 3GB. If you have 4GB or more RAM then you are probably familiar with the following screen.

Computer Properties displayed installed memory as 4GB but at the same time stated that only 3 GB is usable. So, where did the remaining memory go?

As it turns out, chunks of your RAM are reserved for various purposes and are not available to the operating system. For example, PCI Express support will reserve 256-768 MB depending upon the graphics adapter. Due to this Windows

always displays less than 4 GB RAM as the amount of usable memory. Depending upon your hardware, anywhere between 2.75 GB and 3.5 GB of RAM will be available to the OS.

But, what if you have more than 4 GB RAM? Even on a system with 32 GB RAM, 32 bit editions of Windows will display less than 4 GB of memory. This is a known limitation of the Windows Vista and 7 x86 editions.
Microsoft claims that it is not their fault and is instead a limitation of the 32 bit architecture. At first glance this

seems correct. 32 bit processor using 32 bit registers should be only able to address up to 4 GB of RAM (2[SUP]32[/SUP] = 4G). However, this is not actually true. The main reason being a feature called Physical Address Extension (PAE).
PAE makes it possible to address more than 4 GB of memory using 32 bit registers, since the registers aren’t used to

store the physical address. Instead, the registers store linear addresses, which are mapped to physical addresses using the page table. This feature has been available since the days of Intel Pentium Pro. In x86 processors additional address lines are provided so that up to 64 GB can be addressed when using the PAE mode. If you want to learn more

about Windows memory addressing, go through Geoff Chappell’s notes.
Windows Vista and 7 have two kernels – one which doesn’t use PAE and one which does. They are NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTKRNLPA.EXE respectively. Both of them reside within the Windows/System32 directory. Can you guess which one you are using? If you have a modern machine, then chances are that Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is enabled in your system and in that case you are already using the kernel with PAE enabled.

How to Enable More Than 4 GB Memory

Before getting started, keep in mind that this patch involves modifying the kernel. Do no proceed unless you are confident. Most security products will identify these patches as malicious since they modify the Windows kernel.

Download the appropriate patch for your system (links at the end of this post). I haven’t tried the Windows Vista patch, but I can confirm that the Windows 7 patch works. The Windows 7 patch is in Russian language. To begin

patching click on the big button (refer to screenshot). After this a command prompt window should appear. Press Y.
On restarting the system, you should see two entries in the Windows Boot Menu – one being the older configuration

and the other being the one with support for more than 4 GB RAM. If you don’t want to be prompted every time, press Win + R, type msconfig and hit Enter. Under the Boot tab, reduce the timeout value (to something like 3 sec). If you wish, you can simply get rid of the older configuration by deleting it. But I wouldn’t recommend this. If you get a water mark (Test Mode) on your desktop after restarting, type mcbuilder.exe in the Start Menu and press Enter.

Windows Vista Patch

Windows 7 Patch: Step 1 (Click on the button)

Windows 7 Patch: Step 2 (Press Y)​

This patch will allow the OS to use more than 4 GB of memory. However, it does have a limitation – more than 3 GB of memory cannot be allocated to a single application. This patch is mainly targeted at systems with more than 4 GB of RAM. However, in some cases installing this patch on 4 GB systems will also lead to an increase in available memory

(which may not necessarily result in performance improvement). This may appear to be a bit strange since Windows 7 and Vista are technically capable of addressing up to 4 GB of memory. Obviously, there is a logical explanation for this behavior. But, I won’t discuss it here. Refer to Geoff Chappell’s notes on Physical Memory Map if you wish to explore the issue in detail.

Warning: The patches described in this article are kernel patches. They may result in unexpected hardware issues and expose your system to malicious exploits.

Download Links:
4GB Memory Patch for Vista 32 bit (SP1 and SP2)
4GB Memory Patch for Windows 7 32 bit

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

hapna siyo hivyo ram yangu ni 0.99 gb ila hayo maelezo uliyoyatoa yana sema kuwa siyo recommend kufanya hayo mautundu kama una less than 4gb

Halafu wewe unatumia Windows XP Service pack 3 haitowezekana kutumia haya maujanja mpaka uwe na windows Vista au Windows 7 au Windows 8 barakita