{"id":38123,"date":"2004-08-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/08\/19\/myth-in-order-to-use-awe-you-must-enable-pae\/"},"modified":"2004-08-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T07:00:00","slug":"myth-in-order-to-use-awe-you-must-enable-pae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040819-00\/?p=38123","title":{"rendered":"Myth: In order to use AWE, you must enable PAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/memory\/base\/address_windowing_extensions.asp\"> Address Windowing Extensions (AWE)<\/a> does not require PAE. I don&#8217;t know why some people claim that it does, since it is so easy to demonstrate otherwise.\n Take a program that uses AWE. If you don&#8217;t have one handy, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/memory\/base\/awe_example.asp\"> use the one that comes in MSDN as a sample program that demonstrates how to use AWE<\/a>. Grant yourself &#8220;Lock Pages in Memory&#8221; privileges and run the program. Observe that it works.\n Now remove the \/PAE switch from your boot.ini, reboot, and run the program again. Observe that it still works.<\/p>\n<p> Myth disproved by direct experimentation and observation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) does not require PAE. I don&#8217;t know why some people claim that it does, since it is so easy to demonstrate otherwise. Take a program that uses AWE. If you don&#8217;t have one handy, you can use the one that comes in MSDN as a sample program that demonstrates how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-38123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) does not require PAE. I don&#8217;t know why some people claim that it does, since it is so easy to demonstrate otherwise. Take a program that uses AWE. If you don&#8217;t have one handy, you can use the one that comes in MSDN as a sample program that demonstrates how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}