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Is it time I went 64bit Vista?

  • 아티클

My notebook (a rather nice Compaq nc8430) is in need of a major cleanup. Over the last 6 months I have installed many Beta (and Alpha) bits of software. Hence it has the odd “issue” :-)

We are about to enter a “most has RTM’d moment”:

Which means I fancy doing a complete rebuild. However – is it time I switched to 64bit? Several of my colleagues have and after initial hiccups consider it a solid and viable option. They are not alone.

Hmmm… it certainly feels like that moment has come. But… still means a day of my life to get it all back up and I am holiday next week. Maybe later :-)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    Have they fixed the issue that you apparently can't use the Locals window when debugging in Visual Studio 2008 under 64bit Windows? <">http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/a/e/9ae0f6cc-7032-408e-9ca7-989f9e4af4ec/VS2008Readme.htm> "Visual Studio 2008 Readme 2.3.1.4. Locals window does not work on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. The Locals window is not visible in Visual Studio 2008 when it is running on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. To resolve this issue: No workaround is available."

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    Been using 64-bit Vista with VS2008 since November 2008 and pretty happy with it. Something in the tcpip stack kills my router over VPN but that's the only issue and it is probably the router's fault. The key of course is driver availability - I'd strongly suggest getting a new (bigger, of course) HDD and installing on there as a test first - then if it all goes wrong you just put the old HDD back. I'd also suggest at least 4GB ram for all that (especially on a laptop) if it's possible.. SQL + VS is a heavy workload and I know you MS types use VirtualPC alot for demos too.

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    Thanks all for the feedback - much appreciated. Oh - and hi there Alastair, good to hear from you and thanks for sharing about the locals issue.