Ben Rubinstein
Active member
I want to be able to use more RAM than just 3GB. Currently running XP Pro. RAM is stupidly cheap at present, I can upgrade to 8GB for almost pocket change.
I did try it a while back to find out that my scanner and printer didn't have 64 bit drivers and neither did my spyder. Have to admit it was the faffing with the spyder that drove me back to 32 bit. I had tried XP 64 bit but I assume it would make more sense if I were to do it properly, to try for Vista 64 bit which is currently supported and for which far more drivers are available. Please let me know if I'm making a mistake!
I think the best solution at present would be to partition my hard drive and load the 64 bit OS with the option to choose which to boot into (anyone suggest how to do that, I'm very rusty on software these days) at least to keep me going until I've worked through any issues and not to loose my extremely streamlined and decent current windows setup.
Any suggestions, pointers, people telling me to buy a mac :salute:, etc?
I did try it a while back to find out that my scanner and printer didn't have 64 bit drivers and neither did my spyder. Have to admit it was the faffing with the spyder that drove me back to 32 bit. I had tried XP 64 bit but I assume it would make more sense if I were to do it properly, to try for Vista 64 bit which is currently supported and for which far more drivers are available. Please let me know if I'm making a mistake!
I think the best solution at present would be to partition my hard drive and load the 64 bit OS with the option to choose which to boot into (anyone suggest how to do that, I'm very rusty on software these days) at least to keep me going until I've worked through any issues and not to loose my extremely streamlined and decent current windows setup.
Any suggestions, pointers, people telling me to buy a mac :salute:, etc?