Why does Windows only show about 3.5 GB of my 4 GB of RAM?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/27086/wh...

Accepted answer links:
[Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archive...

Answer 2 links:
[32bit desktop Windows]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...
[The 3GB-not-4GB RAM problem]: https://web.archive.org/web/200809121515...
[instructions]: https://web.archive.org/web/200911251113...
[The system memory that is reported in the System Information dialog box in Windows Vista is less than you expect if 4 GB of RAM is installed]: https://web.archive.org/web/201111300753...

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