verify if largeAddressAware is in effect?

Question

I followed the steps in:

http://lennybacon.com/2010/10/18/UltimateGuideToSpeedUpVisualStudio.aspx

to make my Visual Studio 2010 faster, including the advice

Answer 1

Since I didn't want to install a 1.6 GB heavy add-on to visual studio, I figured an alternative way.

You can upload the .exe onto www.virustotal.com, then under details you can see this near the bottom

ImageFileCharacteristicsExecutable, Large address aware

Answer 2

As the article below states, Open Task Manager and verify the the memory in use by the devenv is more than 2 GB.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Answer 3

Yes there is, and the necessary tool is included with VS.

Open the "Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)" console from the start menu, and CD into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE (adjust for your own system if you have changed the installation directory or run 64-bit Windows).

Then do:

dumpbin /headers devenv.exe | more

The start of the output on my machine is:

Dump of file devenv.exe

PE signature found

File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE

FILE HEADER VALUES
             14C machine (x86)
               4 number of sections
        4BA1FAB3 time date stamp Thu Mar 18 12:04:35 2010
               0 file pointer to symbol table
               0 number of symbols
              E0 size of optional header
             122 characteristics
                   Executable
                   Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses
                   32 bit word machine

The second to last line is what you are looking for -- if it's there, your executable is large address aware.