[blueman2]

Also I noticed in the rheingold launcher thread you said you were using windows 7 32bit. Are you using the 32bit system also for ista? I'm only asking because windows 32bit systems can only utilize 3.5GB ram. So even if you have 8GB ram sticks installed the system will only use 3.5GB of it. To use all of the ram you need windows 64bit installed.

You guessed right! I use 2 laptops. I use an old laptop with Win7 32bit for most of my coding, but decided to use my faster laptop running 64bit Win7 for the ISTA VMs. Exactly for the reason you state: ISTA VMs need lots of memory and 32bit is capped at around 3.5GB which is not nearly enough. In fact, even with 4GB available on my 64bit laptop it was too slow which is why I upgraded to 8GB. Much better now. But it still codes very slow. But at least now, if I every need ISTA/P, I have it.

For now, I do pretty much everything on my 32bit machine running BST2.12 with NCSExpert.

Thanks again!!!