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Going to buy Windows 7 - 32 or 64 bit version?

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  • jgallcash
    jgallcash Posts: 645 Forumite
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    Really useful information Jasx.

    Without sounding selfish - do you have any advice as to my next steps with software4students and buying the 64 bit upgrade version of Windows 7?
  • JasX
    JasX Posts: 3,996 Forumite
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    jgallcash wrote: »
    Really useful information Jasx.

    Without sounding selfish - do you have any advice as to my next steps with software4students and buying the 64 bit upgrade version of Windows 7?

    Doing a bit of googling it'll probably be ok,

    http://extremevirtualsupport.com/blog/index.php/do-a-clean-install-with-windows-7-student-version/

    http://computerstore.psu.edu/sites/default/files/Microsoft%20Recommendation%20for%20Installation%20of%20Windows%207%20Student%20Media.pdf

    If all the above fails you are properly licensed having vista pre-installed and you should be able to negotiate with microsoft technical support to (giving them both serial numbers, vista and win7) to get yourself activated.
  • Sublime_2
    Sublime_2 Posts: 15,741 Forumite
    delain wrote: »
    My OH had XP on 64-bit and could not use his webcam, or printer and lots of software because everything was geared towards 32 bit. On the other side of the same coin, most viruses are geared towards 32-bit as well and he never had a virus problem :D

    For me it was the other way round, although I had vista rather than xp.

    I had problems with my printer, toshiba bluetooth dongle, graphics, etc in vista, and I have had no problems (with the same device)s since I installed win 7 64 bit. Its worked a treat for me.
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
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    delain wrote: »
    My OH had XP on 64-bit and could not use his webcam, or printer and lots of software because everything was geared towards 32 bit. On the other side of the same coin, most viruses are geared towards 32-bit as well and he never had a virus problem :D
    the 64bit version of XP was terrible for support (drivers etc). Vista & Win7 are a lot better.

    I had XP 64bit on my computer for about a day before i gave up and installed the 32bit version of XP.
  • puppet1984
    puppet1984 Posts: 127 Forumite
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    bought 64 upgrade off software for students to upgrade from xp. told me i had to clean install anyway. think if it detects vista it will allow install and give you the option to cean install
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