Anthony Buckland wrote:
Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications
that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions,
or replaced with something else on transitioning from
WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7?
For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant
utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting
any eventless reinstallations).
I moved 2 computers from 32 bit to 64 bit. One a Toshiba Laptop that had
Vista Home Premium and and one a Dell desktop that had XP Pro. I have a
5 year old Epson Photo printer attached to the laptop and set up for
network printing from the desktop. I works fine. All hardware on both
computers work just like they did before the change except for a USB
network adapter on the desktop, so I bought a new one.
My Norton Ghost 9 would not work on Windows 7, so I bought Acronis 2010.
I've been using WS-FTP Pro for uploading my web pages but I had just
upgraded my Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 so I'm
using that for file uploads. I've not attached my scanner yet, but will
this weekend and will report back on how that works. It's a 5 year old
Epson and I've already downloaded the new drivers from Epson for that.
I have 2 USB hubs on the desktop and both work fine along with a SATA
Dock and 2 external hard drives, 2 thumb drives and a USB card reader.
So far I've not had one major problem except for some permissions issues
with some files.
I have an old dBase compiled program that I used to run on my XP machine
and it wouldn't run on Windows 7, so I installed DosBox and it runs fine
using that free utility.
Tomorrow I'm going to install a friends older program in XP and see if
it will work in XP Mode.
Right now I see no reason to go back to a 32 bit machine and see no
reason for "major" concerns about 64 bit.
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