Upgrading To Vista 64bit

[devilsown]

to much software i use is not compatable.

Ups worldship, Fedex does not work either, Neither does my wireless print server... Even after manual setting it up. I wish i could down grade but i bought an oem version.

[R1lover]

You can install or run those programs in 32 bit mode also..... give that a try... as for downgrading... grab a copy of 32 bit via torrent.... then use your legal license number, it will work on 32 bit as well as 64 bit... I did the same for going from 32 bit to 64 bit... oem versions only come with one 32 or 64, retail or upgrade versions some with both.

[Brandon Sheley]

I've been very happy with vista but win7 does look pretty nice
Just tested the latest RC on my vista machine and it seems to run pretty good, a little buggy still but that's why it's an RC

[lasto]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

I've been very happy with vista but win7 does look pretty nice
Just tested the latest RC on my vista machine and it seems to run pretty good, a little buggy still but that's why it's an RC

Im quite impressed with it 2.Lighting fast to me.WIndows open instantly and ive been using it for days and yet to find any slow down on anything at all.
Ive been watching music videos/Visting websites as well as defragging my drives and everything runs smoothly.

Why have they removed Quick Launch - and made u add everything to the big start Bar.
Bad mistake i think as i used to store my icons on quick launch to keep the desktop tidy.

[Biker_GA]

Pinning a program to the taskbar is much better than having the quick launch. Even if you have multiple instances of something running, it tiles to the icon in your taskbar. Mouse over the icon, and you'll get this nice display showing all the screens that are running in the background. Just select the screen you want.

[lasto]

Originally Posted by Biker_GA

Pinning a program to the taskbar is much better than having the quick launch. Even if you have multiple instances of something running, it tiles to the icon in your taskbar. Mouse over the icon, and you'll get this nice display showing all the screens that are running in the background. Just select the screen you want.

taskbar can soon get full doing it that way whereas before u had the taskbar and the quicklaunch so could keep things seperate.
Ive seen the Pin to taskbar option and call me old fashioned but i dont like it.

[Wayne Luke]

It's their solution to providing an application dock that users wanted without copying what is in OSX and keeping the Windows flavor. When I started with the new taskbar, I thought I would hate it but now I don't think I would ever want to lose the functionality. It combines everything about quicklaunch with application and document management. If you use small icons on the task bar without titles, you have plenty of room for 30 or so applications with a widescreen monitor. Can even launch and/or switch to applications with the keyboard easily without assigning keyboard shortcuts. Just press Win plus a number to launch your favorite ten applications.

If you want though you can always recreate the "Quick Launch" toolbar. Create a folder called "Quick Launch". Add your application shortcuts to it. Then add it as a new toolbar on the taskbar. In my opinion, the new functionality is much better though.

[Biker_GA]

Agreed. Some of the new features have taken a little bit of use to get used to 'em. At this point, I would dread going back to an older version of Windows. I'm beginning to really like Windows again.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

IWhen I started with the new taskbar, I thought I would hate it but now I don't think I would ever want to lose the functionality.

It's just like the Ribbon interface introduced with Office 2007. You think you'd hate it, but works beautifully once you get used to it.

People are resistant to change.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

It's just like the Ribbon interface introduced with Office 2007. You think you'd hate it, but works beautifully once you get used to it.

Paint and Wordpad inherited the Ribbon Interface with Windows 7. None of the other tools did though so its still different from the standard. So right now, Microsoft is working with three interfaces which is going to confuse people until they get it narrowed down to the best one.

1) Standard Windows Interface with menus and a secondary bar of formatting buttons if necessary.

2) Ribbon Panel interface used by some Office applications, Paint and Wordpad.

3) Hidden Menu Interface. This is primarily used by their Internet Applications including Internet Explorer, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger. Though it is also used in the default view of Windows Explorer (in Windows 7) as well.