I’ve been researching ways to increase 32 bit Vista’s memory addressing and I came across something called PAE (Physical Address Extension) and DEP (Data Execution Prevention) Apparently it’s built into the OS itself but it’s disabled normally. It doesn’t appear to be too hard to enable. I was just looking for some feedback from people who may have done this.

As I understand it the main component that needs to support this is your CPU. I’d be running the Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 at 3.33 Ghz

anyone know if the E8600 supports hardware enabled PAE and DEP? And by changing this attribute, will I need to change it back everytime I need to update Vista?