Upgrading to XP64 from XP32
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Its not meant to be the workhorse.
In my personal experience, unless you have a highly specialized 64bit app that you absolutely have to run (the kind that there are only a handful of in the world) there are just no benefits to it at all and many many down sides such as hyper expensive anti virus software, shell issues with every common app you're used to running, many apps despite being advertised as compatible running into glitches here and there and in the end most of the stuff you want to run turns out to not be truly 64bit anyway, just designed to be compatible with WOW as 32 bit emulated apps. Squeezing a few hundred kb of extra ram simply isn't worth it.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
Is XP64 really that bad? Running Vista64 I've encountered exactly one app that wouldn't work (a drag reordering task bar addin, thankfully a CPian has written a replacement.[^]) and am using avast free without issue.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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News to me, I made all the rounds of all the virus scanners a couple of months ago and no one had anything for x64 that wasn't an arm and a leg, I'll have to check again. Cheers!
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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XP32 won't give you 4GB of RAM; it will be between 3.25 and 3.5 GB. (I always thought it was 3.5GB, but a colleague just got a new system and it cut him off at 3.25 for 32-bit.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
XP32 won't give you 4GB of RAM; it will be between 3.25 and 3.5 GB. (I always thought it was 3.5GB, but a colleague just got a new system and it cut him off at 3.25 for 32-bit.)
Or less. It depends how much is blocked out for DMA. My laptop only has 3GB available (most of what the BIOS snags is unused :mad:), and a desktop with high end GPUs can end up with only 2 and change.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Is XP64 really that bad? Running Vista64 I've encountered exactly one app that wouldn't work (a drag reordering task bar addin, thankfully a CPian has written a replacement.[^]) and am using avast free without issue.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
It's entirely useless unless you have one of a handful of very specific needs and want to dedicate an entire OS to that task. I want to reach out and slap people running 64 because they haven't thought it out and they have no good reason to and it just causes headache all around.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Are you sure you weren't looking at 64bit
serverversions?Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Maybe, however I just looked at it again and they still make no mention at all of 64bit for their free version, all I found was blog and message board posts saying it was now compatible.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson