Jeff:
" Exactly where is that magical PAE memory supposed to appear?
It’ll only “appear” in apps that explicitly code to support the AWE (address windowing extensions) API, which makes use of the PAE extensions in the CPU. I don’t think the base OS does this, but applications might.
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No - PAE increases the available pool of memory in total. AWE isn’t directly connected with it, though the two go together from necessity for super-huge apps on 32-bit.
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