I have a windows vista home premium computer.I allways noticed none of the time since i have this computer and it has built in microsoft software ‘windows defender’that i allways update too.but never noticed or it said that it found a spyware or maleware from my comuter and when i was suspicious about it i tried some different spyware software and they found few spyware-maleware from my computer.I am not sure if windows defender really working.

Ive searched and I’ve searched endlessly for a solution trying to avoid calling for customer support.

Many of the people who had the same problem as i have all ran a 32bit OS and i know 32bit doesn’t or from what i gathered during their time of posting didn’t support more than a little over 3gbs.

I currently have Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit as my OS. My bios reads 4096mb and system properties reads 4gb, yet my task manager shows me at 3gb.

I thought maybe it was just being ate by system stuff and that was just not going to be alloted to me, like hdd space, i took out 1 stick and my TM read about 2086, swapped them out to see if i had a bad stick same thing.

Ive looked into Ram Remapping and what little M$ info i could find on it seems to say i meet the requirements but my bios is just lacking the feature.

Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile Processor T9550
Supported Features:
Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology
Intel® EM64T<——–
Intel® Virtualization Technology
Execute Disable Bit

And i have a 64bit OS Thinking about reinstalling the Hell that was Windows 7 so i can test my ram gains on it.(great Os just fought for drivers for hrs and hrs until i gave up) then i had to fight to get it off my system without the boot.ini and the beast that is "bcdedit" woot go M$
Ive been into the Bios, Nvidia Control panel, Device manager, etc etc nothing lets me choose how much is allocated to my Gpu
i was sure it was the gpu, since it was showing 2gb in some property maybe a game was telling me i had 2gb of video memory. its a Dedicated gpu nvidia 130m

Ok well, i have a toshiba satelite L300 laptop, and it has certain drivers specifically like it… like the webcam driver ect.. I currently have windows vista home premium.

If i do i clean install with windows 7 , will it wipe all my drivers off of the laptop? if so…. is there a way for me to access my drivers on my laptop, and back them up on an external hard drive?

I have 1 gig of ram….Does xp mode on win7pro require more than that? how do i know if i have the virtualization stuff for my laptop to get xp mode to work?

Thanyou :]

I was looking into some windows 7 facts at this website:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/windows_7_upgrade_guide_all_your_questions_answered?page=0%2C0

I used the program that they have to figure out if you can have 64 bit or not. When I downloaded it and ran it, my max bit length is 64, my Hardware D.E.P is a yes, but my hardware virtualization is locked off. It says:

Virtualization Locked Off

This processor’s advanced hardware support for virtualization has been disabled and "locked off" by some external influence – most likely by this system’s BIOS as the system was booting. Since enabling hardware virtualization will allow faster and more secure virtual machines and their hosting operating systems to run at 100% full speed, you may wish to poke around in your system’s BIOS to see whether you’re able to find any references to "hardware virtualization" or "VMX", etc.

What should I do? I am running a 32 bit windows vista home premium

Hi ..

Currently I have Windows Vista Home Premium and I want to upgrade to Ultimate but I don’t know if is worth it because I woul like to know if Windows 7 Ultimate latest is better for games or Windows Vista Ultimate is better for games. Please give me a good advice in about what OS to chose. Please links an justifying included.