Quicken sees less memory on a 16 GB PC than on an 8 GB PC
Rocket J Squirrel
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For many years, I ran Quicken on a pair of Win7x64 PCs with 8 GB of real memory. On both those machines, Quicken reported total memory of 4,194,303 KB, i.e., 4 GB.
I recently acquired a new Win10x64 PC with 16 GB of RAM. On that machine, Quicken reports total memory of 2,097,151 KB - only 2 GB.
Why does Quicken see less memory on a PC with more memory? I am new to Win10, is there a setting I need to modify?
Quicken user since version 2 for DOS, now using QWin Biz & Personal Subscription (US) on Win10 Pro.
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This issue has been discussed previously. If you haven't already, you may want to review: https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7808588/what-and-where-is-quicken-reporting-available-memory-2097151k0
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Thanks for the pointer to that thread. I remember it now, and read it again, but it doesn’t actually answer my question.
Quicken user since version 2 for DOS, now using QWin Biz & Personal Subscription (US) on Win10 Pro.
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Actually it does...How it saw more under Win7 is anyone's guess.
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Maybe the old 8 GB were the anomaly...- to allow Quicken to see 4 GB
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Since we all seem to be guessing, my guess is that 32-bit programs can, by definition, see a 32-bit address space, which is 4 GB.The information in various posts around the web is contradictory. Some say Windows steals from that 4 GB. Some say a build-time flag enables 4 GB visibility.I would love to find a simple answer to why the exact same 32-bit executable sees 4 GB on a Win7 machine and 2 GB on a Win10 machine.
Quicken user since version 2 for DOS, now using QWin Biz & Personal Subscription (US) on Win10 Pro.
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Rocket J Squirrel said:Why does Quicken see less memory on a PC with more memory?
No.I am new to Win10, is there a setting I need to modify?0 -
Now for some real amusement. In the same program folder as qw.exe there is a program called techhelp.exe. This is what it displays on my new machine with an Intel i7 CPU, 16 GB RAM, a 512 GB SSD, and a 2925 MB page file:
Quicken user since version 2 for DOS, now using QWin Biz & Personal Subscription (US) on Win10 Pro.
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ok - here's mine - Win10 64-bit (1903) - 4GBEven the DISK info is a little weird -
here are the Properties - not sure how 3931 MB translates into 231 GB or 250 GB0 -
About Techhelp.exe I'd say:
- Users better not rely on this ancient clunker of a program
- Quicken programmers better remove it or find an up-to-date version of the program
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