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Originally Posted by Ara T.
Hm, I have like a 5 or 6 year old printer that works just fine, plug and play I didnt even have to install any drivers.
Cmac, you can also just reinstall Windows XP and your comp should be good for as much longer as the hardware lasts. Computers just tend to need to be wiped periodically, im surprised you made it 5+ years.
Also if you want to use a lot of older hardware or software I'd stick with 32bit Win7. If you can't find a 64bit driver for something that needs it and you have Win7x64, you're hosed.
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I hate to admit it but sometimes this stuff makes me feel like the proverbial old pooperoo. Carn-sarn-it, all these dang new fangled things . . .
I'm going to try to do a quickie self tutorial off of the web about the 64 bit thing. I don't have much hardware or software - just my HP printer, about 3 years old. I've been wanting to get a used copy of some sort of autocad, Autodesk 2008 or something, but since I haven't done it yet, I can make sure I get one that's compatible with 64 bit.
Just did the quickie tutorial, my HP printer has a Win7 64 bit driver download available.
But I'm pretty certain that there's no reason to re-run the XP pro install on my current machine and choose 64 bit, as it only (only, hah, a while back it was a lot) has about half a gig of Ram.