Brandon Strader Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Hi If I upgrade my XP to 64-bit, do I need to reinstall everything? Cause I have like 150gb worth of software I don't wanna reinstall... but I NEED the extra RAM, as you may have guessed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 You can't upgrade at all, it's a fresh install, period. Not just applications, the whole OS, AFAIK. As we were telling zircon in #ocremix today, better to move to Win7 x64, which is more mainstream in terms of support at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidd Cabbage Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Agreed. There is really no point to staying with XP anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted May 25, 2010 Author Share Posted May 25, 2010 My Alesis io|26 firewire doesn't have Win 7 support though, and trying to run it on that causes audio drop-outs. I tried. So another 6+ hours of installing.... sigh. By the way djp, Alesis disagrees with you, haha. A support worker for them told me "With Windows 7, it will likely be 6 months to a year before the DJ and/or Recording industries as a whole will be adopting and recommending Windows 7 as a preferred platform for any professional application." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcana Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 "With Windows 7, it will likely be 6 months to a year before the DJ and/or Recording industries as a whole will be adopting and recommending Windows 7 as a preferred platform for any professional application." Doesn't mean that they don't support Windows 7, just means that the industry as a whole moves slow as a dog. The Windows 7 64-bit version is considered more widespread than the 32-bit version overall; probably not more widespread than Windows XP, but Win7 has seen fast adoption rates, so the momentum is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted May 25, 2010 Author Share Posted May 25, 2010 I'd love to use Windows 7, I think it is very pretty. But i'd have to buy a compatible recording interface to replace the Alesis io|26 firewire, and that would be expensive and I'd have to do a lot of research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannthr Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 I happily used Windows XP x64 for my farm machine for years before switching to Windows 7 x64. The reason for the switch was that ultimately, people don't support the Windows XP 64bit platform as much as they support Windows 7 64bit. It's just going to be easier to find hardware drivers for Win 7 x64 over Win XP x64. No trouble switching though and my new farm machine gets incredible performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC Ricers Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Windows XP x64 would've been the ideal Windows 3 years ago, and I was disappointed that support dropped quickly. It's all likely because Microsoft was pushing people to get Vista instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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