Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/30/07 22:22

Sanctus (mchi55@hotmail.com) writes:
> Is there a way around this?
>
> I have a SQL 2005 with 8 GB of memory that I want to set AWE on.
> But the local security policy won't let me, it says:
>
> This setting is not comaptiple with computers running Windows 2000
> Service Pack 1 or earlier.
> Apply group Policy objects containing this setting only to computers
> running a later version of the operating system.
>
> Why does it say Windows 2000 SP1 or earlier? I'm running on Windows
> 2003, sp1.

Don't know what that means, but it seems that some version information
in Windows have been corrupted. I think you should ask in a Windows
forum.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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