Work-around for the 16GB limit on window home premium?

mrjimphelps said:

Why did you have only 16 GB enabled?

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just happened to notice i had speed read your post and ignored that question - Windows Home Premium limits the user to 16 GB of Ram - after installing the ram, i noticed no difference in task manager, it only showed 16 GB, when i went to my properties on "my computer" it showed "32 GB installed, 16 GB enabled"

Ran a bunch of utilities testing it and all 32 showed good, and all the utilities recognized all 32 GB - researched it on the web and found a number of users having discovered that windows or microsoft choose to limit the Home Premium version of win 7 to 16 GB, while Pro and Ultimate are not limited

go figure

ACTUALLY, another poster pulled up an old web descript from microsoft where they were touting the win 7 family as supporting "all your memory" - wish i had the time to search for it

2nd, i'm sorry Layback Bear, that position is as contrary as it can be - what if Ford sold you a four door car, and after you tried to install four floor mats, and someone said something similiar to you, ie if you wanted to use 4 floor mats, ie 2 in the rear, you should have bought the "XE:" model

again, charging more for recognizable added elements, like WMC etc, i can concede. But the logic of what they're going to allow me to use in the way of RAM memory - way out of hand, especially when no mention was made of that limitation when they introduced win 7. When i was researching i also noticed complaints didn't surface until mid 2015 when folks started trying to get extra mileage out of their existing rigs

and i'm not sure i understand how "16GB satisfies 90% of the users out there" (paraphrase) justifies that limitation

And as to your question "Rendering video's quicker needs lots of ram. The more the better.
Knowing that, why would one buy Home Premium knowing the ram limitations?" Simple, i obviously didn't know about the limitation, but it also didn't exist when i first purchased Win 7 Ultimate in 2011, which wouldn't re-install when i built this rig - when i called into microsoft to ask why, even though it was a retail copy, i was told it has to have an existing copy of windows to upgrade - okay, that response made sense to me, but then after buying an OEM copy of win home premium, i found the win ultimate would not install and i quit screwing with it.

Plus this rig, with the 4790 cpu was not originally intended for heavy video rendering - when my video work got heavier, i built a new rig with a i7-5960X (8 cores) w/64 GB of ram, and it reduced my rendering times by about 60% - but there have been too many times i've got 3-4 jobs in front of me that need to get done, so while the 2nd rig is rendering, i go back to the 1st rig

but none of your stmts justify or diminish microsoft's manifestation of out right greed - go back and read my post about Google/NEST and their strong arming customers as a captive market. It's only silicon valley that practices that business model - obviously, keeping up with the Jones, in terms of who has the biggest yacht or personal 757 Boeing Dreamliner is a strong motivational factor.

Factually it doesn't matter if 99% of the existing users' needs are satisfied with 16GB of ram, if there's a real justification for that limitation, that wasn't revealed until a number of years after release, please point that one out to me.

Layback Bear said:

First off Windows 7 Home Premium with 16 GB of ram will suite 90% plus of home users.
In my opinion that's one reason for the 16 GB restriction is their. It's for home use.

If a home user or anybody else needs or wants more ram the option to buy Pro or Ultimate was there. If you want more marbles in your marble bag, one just has to pay for it. Simple!

Was the more than 16 GB of ram a selling point using PRO or Ultimate? Sure was. It was also a way for Microsoft to get more money. So what? Give me more and and I'm willing to pay more.

That is why both my system are Windows 7 Pro/64. Of course Pro cost more.
You get what you pay for.

As far as I know their is no work around for the ram limitation in Home Premium.

Rendering video's quicker needs lots of ram. The more the better.
Knowing that, why would one buy Home Premium knowing the ram limitations?

If one can find a legal Windows 7 Pro/64 that should work quite well to solve the ram problem.

Another option would be Windows 10 Pro/64.

Jack

My ranting wasn't directed at the forum members, but the very idea that anyone found that practice defensible

and i figured that but at $13.77 and being on amazon, it was a safe purchase - i'm not worried about that

Barman58 - i remember those days; my first computer was an i386 laptop that i bought in 1990/91. Hell, iirc, the "HDD" in it, was only 512MB, i forget how much ram. And even in 2005 or 2006, a 500GB HDD was huge, i don't believer there were any systems offering 1TB HDDs.

But we still don't come to find out there was a 500GB limitation on HDD capacity written into the software. The limitation on Ram is an artificial one - written purely out of greed. I don't mind paying for value rendered, but when the limitation on Ram took more effort to create that product, than it would have to have left the software without it, i tend to feel someone has their hand in my back pocket.

Respectfully, i think we're going to have to agree to disagree