Posted: 12/22/2010 11:26:11 AM EDT
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My PC finally died, and am looking into a quad-core 64bit system.
Am migrating from XPpro, and am wondering how well Win7 (ultimate) w/ XP works. I am hoping that no additional partitions are required, administration privs, etc Thanx |
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Only thing you really have to worry about is disabling the UAC popups....or not, if you are mostly computer illiterate. The only thing that was incompatible on the system I built for my uncle was his 10 year old printer...he liked that printer enough to have me nuke the computer and rebuild it in XP Pro
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Quoted: Nothing has been incompatible so far, I've used Vista 64bit and 7 64bit since release. Some of my XP programs didn't work when I upgraded. Symantic Backup Exec refused to installed and said I needed up upgrade. FU Symantic I'll use the Windows Backup tool instead.  Same thing happended with Nero Burning ROM. I got my hands on a free copy of Nero 10 so it wasn't so bad.But over all no problems. The interface took a bit to get used to. I was running in classic mode for 15 years so that habbit was a little hard to break. There is a utility called ClassicShell which will give you a Win9x style GUI in Win7 but I found this months after the swtich so I didn't really have a need for it. |
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Quoted: Only thing you really have to worry about is disabling the UAC popups....or not, if you are mostly computer illiterate. The only thing that was incompatible on the system I built for my uncle was his 10 year old printer...he liked that printer enough to have me nuke the computer and rebuild it in XP Pro For what? Maybe the 1st time you run a shady .exe u just downloaded or the occasional "system update". UAC on 7 is hardly used. |
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64 bit is awesome. Do it.
Only major issues will probably be older peripherals and drivers. I have an old scanner with no driver for it. Popular printers like HP should be OK. No big deal, scanners are dirt cheap and I have 32 bit machines to use to be a cheapskate. No software problems here. |
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Only thing you really have to worry about is disabling the UAC popups....or not, if you are mostly computer illiterate. The only thing that was incompatible on the system I built for my uncle was his 10 year old printer...he liked that printer enough to have me nuke the computer and rebuild it in XP Pro For what? Maybe the 1st time you run a shady .exe u just downloaded or the occasional "system update". UAC on 7 is hardly used. UAC in 7 still sucks like in Vista, but it's easy to turn off. It's a user setting, so if you have other users just set up logons for them too and you'll be fine. |
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We've done some Win7 64bit PCs for our programmers and other heavy hitters, some of the things that I could get to work surprised me, but some of the things I thought should work didn't. I say go for it, license for 32 and 64 are the same, if you can't get something to work you can download 32 bit and use the same key as long as it's the same OS type (pro, enterprise, ultimate, etc) |
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sounds positive.
thanx still using Photoshop 6 or 7, (like 6 better) Illustrator 9, Streamline, Acrobat 7 (tried CS2, but don't use it) hate to buy new expensive upgrades..... Open Office should be no problem using Nero 9 or 10? and some video editing (Sony Vegas) |
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MOST of my applications came over.
Those that didn't were ancient. Adobe Acrobat 5 didn't make it. 300 bucks for a new version. Couldn't find a driver for my old NEC Silentwriter (think I found one but I already bought a new HP). DOS based programs don't (LEE "Shooter" program). Meh. The pluses > minuses. Office 97 still works! 
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I've had a 64bit system since July and I am running older programs for the most part. Programs that my old XP system used. The only program I have found that causes any problems for my work was Adobe 7 Professional. So I went out and bought PDF X-Change Viewer Pro 64bit for 1/6th the cost of Adobe 9 Pro and have had zero problems.
Word, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, etc all work just fine. |
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Nothing has been incompatible so far, I've used Vista 64bit and 7 64bit since release. Same here. My wireless card didn't work with Vista or Windows 7, but that was a known issue as it was already on the incompatible hardware list. Otherwise no problems. |
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I had a couple of really old games that didn't want to run right (of course, they also hate the fact that I have widescreen monitors), but by now most manufacturers have 64 bit drivers for their stuff, except for stuff they've stopped supporting (so I gave my ex my old scanner). |
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good deal.
I've had to resort to my 2001 vintage laptop w/ warp-speed 800MHz and 8MB video 
so now I jump in it sorry, no time to build, Dell Precision (ouch) at least it looks like I can use my legacy software thanx people 
BTW, the primary HD comes loaded from the factory, but I will need to partition for my needs. I have been using Ghost 2003ish for imaging, any recommendations for cloning? |
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You'll need to pin a IE 32 bit version to your task bar or a desktop shortcut if you use IE because Adobe is slow updating and some/ most of the videos won't work with the 64 bit version of IE " This. I think they still have not developed a 64 bit compatible flash player. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You'll need to pin a IE 32 bit version to your task bar or a desktop shortcut if you use IE because Adobe is slow updating and some/ most of the videos won't work with the 64 bit version of IE " This. I think they still have not developed a 64 bit compatible flash player. I don't even bother with with 64bit IE. |