Hacking Windows 7

For a while now I have been using Windows 7 in 32bit mode, despite having over 4Gb of RAM. My Ubuntu was 64 bit, but the main reason for using Windows 7 was for games that were, (how should I put this?) less than compatible with the 64 bit version of Windows. (Windows 7 has been the MOST compatible version of Windows in quite a while BTW. Better than XP by far)

So I grinned and bore the brunt of only seeing half the RAM I owned. It was fine, but, as time wore on, I found myself using Windows 7 more and more, and, Ubuntu less and less. (Nothing wrong with Ubuntu, it's just that I was using my home PC to play games more and most of those were under Steam and thus, under Windows)

 

So I started investigating ways to use the additional RAM. I looked at a RAMDrive solution that looked promising, but unfortunately didn't work as promised. There were also some threads about hacking your Kernel but they looked rather daunting until I found this page!

 

Now I'm running with the full 8GB exposed and it's great! Combine it with Chrome spawning a new thread for every tab and we're talking some serious performance gains. 66 tabs no waiting? Check!