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DragoonPK
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DrLefTy
United States36 Posts
If you have more than 2 gigs of ram, you want a 64 bit version. otherwise, you're never going to notice. | ||
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rockon1215
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inkblot
United States1250 Posts
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
As for windows 7, you'll be able to get it in either version if you purchased it. Though the download off microsoft store is a bit foggy to me on that part. | ||
GTR
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DragoonPK
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On August 12 2009 05:52 GTR wrote: I'm currently using Windows 7 RC 32bit at the moment, is there an RTM 64bit out that is crackable? If you have a demonoid account I will PM you the link | ||
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iceburn
United States303 Posts
like that one for example, just google mydigitallife the big crack dev's are there x64 is jsut faster then x86(32bit) http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/10183-windows-7-x64-vs-windows-7-x86-fight.html here are some unoffical tests. that show that | ||
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GTR
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iceburn
United States303 Posts
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GTR
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DragoonPK
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
i stuck with 32 bit even though I have 4gb of ram. | ||
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iheartgna
United States184 Posts
On August 12 2009 06:09 iceburn wrote: No, I think youll have to clean install from 32 bit to 64bit :/ sorry On August 12 2009 06:15 GTR wrote: That sucks, oh well. Even a "clean install" keeps/transfers everything from your Program Files dir. and some other directories. You can find everything in C:\windows.old after the install. | ||
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Ecael
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GTR
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GTR
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On August 12 2009 06:39 Ecael wrote: You have one of those HP laptops with the recovery partitions? Acer's thing, if memory serves, allows you to make a copy of that recovery partition. Haven't looked too hard for HP even though most of the laptops in the family are HP heh. IIRC, you have to use the in-built recovery software and produce 3 DVD's for back-up. | ||
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On August 12 2009 06:39 GTR wrote: I have a Windows.Old folder from upgrading from Vista to 7, is it safe to delete it to free up space (it's around 20GB)? I installed from the HP Stock Installation (my laptop is HP) to Windows 7 RC, so I'm pretty sure there is nothing important in there. yes as long as you saved your documents/pictures/videos that you had previously on your C:\ partition that you might like | ||
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fanatacist
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... And try to ignore what post he made for his 20 000th | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9376 Posts
On August 12 2009 06:15 DragoonPK wrote: Yeah I think you have to use a clean install. As for Vista, im currently using 32bit version. However, I might wanna try 64bit, i dont have the discs for my laptop as they said its directly in the harddrive or something, no disks needed. Anyone knows how does that work? I do think you need the 64bit discs for this kind of stuff. You're changing the whole system architecture, and I don't think the 64bit version comes in bundle with the 32-bit one. Maybe I'm wrong... | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
On August 12 2009 06:40 GTR wrote: IIRC, you have to use the in-built recovery software and produce 3 DVD's for back-up. And it'll come with all the junk that came from factory, bleh >< I miss the simple days of the past when they can just give us a widows disk, we'd purge the machine, and all was well. | ||
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GTR
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 I just made a back-up in case my Windows 7 somehow decides to totally screw up on me, but it doesn't appear to be the case. | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
On August 12 2009 05:36 inkblot wrote: 32 bit operating systems can only access ~3gb of RAM. 4gb of memory (RAM+virtual memory or w/e it is called in english Windows, so if you say have half gb of v.mem, your os will access 3,5gb of ram). And yeah, if you have 4gb+ then 64bit is way to go. Plus in some applications you dont use whole potential of your CPU on 32bits. | ||
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iceburn
United States303 Posts
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ramen247
United States1256 Posts
+ 1 to kentor a lot of compatibilty problems, and you barely notice any improvements | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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