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RE: [Digital BW] Setting up the Swap drive for PS in Windows

2004-11-24 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Nunan, Mike [mailto:mike.nunan@...]
>
> And also, if you have 4GB of RAM it is possible to set up XP Pro
> (not Home) to
> give 3GB to PS and leave the remaining gig for the OS. You need a
> utility from
> the Windows 2000 Server resource kit in order to patch the Photoshop
> executable file so it will make use of the available memory, and
> you also need
> to edit the c:\boot.ini file. The following articles tell you
> what you need to
> know:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297812/EN-US/

Thanks. I have XP Pro, and Win2K Server on another machine, so I'll look
into that.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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