Windows 7

[KingOfAstras]

Installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 the other night... Bloody beautiful :-) Even better because it was free! A bit step up from Vista, utilises my video card the way it should and whatever program I use seems to just glide. Booting up in comparison to Vista has a much better improvement than I thought :-)

Installed it on an old P4 with 512mb RAM, and still runs as fast as XP, with the Aero enabled too! It's a great piece of work.

[USC]

Taking advantage of my Uni faculty being in the MSDNAA... Also took advantage at the fact that Monash University gives you two email addresses one with .edu and the other with .edu.au LOL so they both work.

= 3 copies for me

Except I have an all-Apple household so I only really need 1 copy

but u r only eligible for home premium upgrade..isnt that right??

[ASTRAY]

got my windows7 cd today.
i really want to change from 32bit to 64bit, but dont want to lose my gb upon gb of um... educational material. (almost 100gb)
is the performance increase really worth changing to 64bit?

[delemonte]

Why should you need to lose anything at all?

[ASTRAY]

Why should you need to lose anything at all?

ive sorted it now, saved what i want to keep and delete the rest.
if your pc is run via 32bit os, and you want to change to 64bit, you need to do a clean install

[melave]

i got windows 7 upgrade with my new lappy.It's good and all but i think i got so burnt with vista that i hardly use it. I dual boot with ubuntu (9.04) and always use that rather than 7

[ASTRAY]

well im about to do a clean install and up my pc to 64bit.
ive done a fair bit of research, link below being best info i could find.
wish me luck and ill see you all on the otherside

[ASTRAY]

clean install completed, but didnt ask me if i wanted 32bit or 64bit, my lappy is able to have 64bit, how can i get 64bit installed?

[delemonte]

The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are a completely different set of installation files. Unless you've got a custom compilation, you'll only have one (either 32-bit or 64-bit) so you'll need to get the 64-bit version.

PS. Make sure you have 64-bit drivers ready

[ASTRAY]

The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are a completely different set of installation files. Unless you've got a custom compilation, you'll only have one (either 32-bit or 64-bit) so you'll need to get the 64-bit version.

PS. Make sure you have 64-bit drivers ready

?
my win7 cd has both 32 and 64 bit on it. and the key is for 32 and 64 bit.