32bit-64bit – Tarik Billa

how much memory can be accessed by a 32 bit machine?

July 9, 2023 by Tarik

Yes, a 32-bit architecture is limited to addressing a maximum of 4 gigabytes of memory. Depending on the operating system, this number can be cut down even further due to reserved address space. This limitation can be removed on certain 32-bit architectures via the use of PAE (Physical Address Extension), but it must be supported … Read more

MS Access DB Engine (32-bit) with Office 64-bit

May 28, 2023 by Tarik

Here’s a workaround for installing the 64-bit version of the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 redistributable on a system with a 32-bit MS Office version installed: Check the 64-bit registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\FilesPaths” before installing the 64-bit version of the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 redistributable. If it does not contain the “mso.dll” registry value, then … Read more