Before any of this bs is continued ... the 32 bit architecture is limited to 4GB of usable ram, it's not a limit that was imposed. It can be surpassed with the use of PAE, which can easily be enabled or disabled and doesn't require any "kernel hacking": https://msdn.microsof*****m/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366796(v=vs.85).aspx

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