Monday, 7 October 2013

How to check if PAE is enabled? (Windows 7/2003 32 bits)

There is a registry setting that will tell you whether Physical Address Extension (PAE) is enabled.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PhysicalAddressExtension
If it is set to 1, then the kernel with PAE support was loaded at startup

WMI will give you this via the command line util 'WMIC', for example:
C:\> wmic os get PAEEnabled
PAEEnabled
TRUE

C:\>

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