It sounded like magic. Leo, a tinkerer by nature, ignored the screaming voice in his head that said back up the registry first .
He forced a hard shutdown. Booted from a USB recovery drive. He sat in the dark, rain hammering the window, as the command prompt blinked at him like an unimpressed god.
He clicked OK. The key turned bold, as if the system itself was nervous.
He right-clicked, created a new DWORD (32-bit) Value , and named it PhysicalMemorySize . He double-clicked it, selected , and typed: 16777216 .