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Why does my Computer not recognize more ram vista?

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Vista may be programmed to run the original amount of ram that was in the machine, also a suggestion is to down grade vista to xp, vista is nothing but aggravation and windows 7 is even worse, there are way to many bugs that haven't been solved.

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