Here’s a strange little quirk I discovered after installing the Windows 7 Release Candidate on my old home PC (whose original specs you can see here):

Installed memory (RAM): 2.00 GB (1.00 GB usable)

Now, I have this PC open, and I can guarantee that there’s only 1GB of RAM installed. I don’t have anything else plugged in that would account for the “2.00 GB” that’s being reported.

I’ve read others on the net complaining that Windows 7 reports that it’s only using a subset of their installed RAM, but this is reporting that it’s using all of the installed RAM, and letting me know that in some alternate reality (perhaps a future date?) I will actually have a whole ’nother gigabyte to use!

So there you go – Windows 7 is so powerful it can actually see RAM from alternate timelines. Perhaps Windows 8 will be able to use it!