Vista 64 Bit

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I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing it
I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to be
a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall in
line?
 
Re: Vista 64 Bit

Well, so far absolutely all of my hardware has drivers. But then, I buy my
hardware with future proofing in mind. And I often refuse to buy from any
vendor who is slow to provide drivers for existing hardware. (And I have a
very long memory.)

Vista64 is not going away. It's not a lame duck, and the driver situation is
already way better than XP x64. But by all means, let the manufacturers know
that you're making buying decisions based on their support (or lack thereof)
for 64bit. The more of us that do so, the sooner they'll get the message.

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"Roy Laws" <RoyLaws@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F67AA3EA-67F5-4767-A912-5B2FD1E29CE2@microsoft.com...
>I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing
>it
> I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to
> be
> a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
> provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
> they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall
> in
> line?
>
>
 
RE: Vista 64 Bit

Roy,
On the antivirus side there are a lot of freeware (and good) alternatives
for Vista x64.
Personally I can recommend you Avast (www.avast.com) which has a freeware
"home" version.
Could you share with us which is your non working hardware?
Carlos

"Roy Laws" wrote:

> I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing it
> I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to be
> a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
> provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
> they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall in
> line?
>
>
 
RE: Vista 64 Bit

Hi. I just wanted to make 2 points when trying to move to Vista X64.

1. When I installed Vista X64 it installed every driver in my machine. Works
flaweless.

2. I knew there was X64 Vista drivers for my PC for all hardware because I
downloaded/installed the Windows Vista Advisory Tool. Saved me lot's of time
on wondering how my install would go.

Thanks
Mike D

"Carlos" wrote:

> Roy,
> On the antivirus side there are a lot of freeware (and good) alternatives
> for Vista x64.
> Personally I can recommend you Avast (www.avast.com) which has a freeware
> "home" version.
> Could you share with us which is your non working hardware?
> Carlos
>
> "Roy Laws" wrote:
>
> > I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing it
> > I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> > drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to be
> > a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
> > provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
> > they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall in
> > line?
> >
> >
 
Re: Vista 64 Bit

Roy Laws <RoyLaws@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon
> installing it I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware
> manufacturers provide 64 bit drivers, and even my anti-virus
> programs will not work.

Everything works for me, did you do your homework before installing?

> Is this going to be a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to
> be?

That's a pretty ridiculous statement since there's a bunch of folks
here running XP 64 bit.

> Maybe they hope if they get enough people complaining about it,
> the manufacturers will fall in line?

It can't hurt to tell the manufacturers that you want 64 bit drivers
and software.



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RE: Vista 64 Bit

Mike,
Most of the regulars in this NG have done the previous investigation
homework before installing Vista x64.
Most of those installs have been successful.
It seems like the OP did it in a hurry and now he needs help, badly.
Carlos

"Mike Douglas" wrote:

> Hi. I just wanted to make 2 points when trying to move to Vista X64.
>
> 1. When I installed Vista X64 it installed every driver in my machine. Works
> flaweless.
>
> 2. I knew there was X64 Vista drivers for my PC for all hardware because I
> downloaded/installed the Windows Vista Advisory Tool. Saved me lot's of time
> on wondering how my install would go.
>
> Thanks
> Mike D
>
> "Carlos" wrote:
>
> > Roy,
> > On the antivirus side there are a lot of freeware (and good) alternatives
> > for Vista x64.
> > Personally I can recommend you Avast (www.avast.com) which has a freeware
> > "home" version.
> > Could you share with us which is your non working hardware?
> > Carlos
> >
> > "Roy Laws" wrote:
> >
> > > I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing it
> > > I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> > > drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to be
> > > a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
> > > provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
> > > they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall in
> > > line?
> > >
> > >
 
Re: Vista 64 Bit

Vista 64 Works fine on my Dell Precision 390

Tell me what motherboard you have and other USB devices connected to it and
I'll do my best in hunting down some 64-bit drivers for you

Antivirus software is no big deal, just get another



"XS11E" <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns99FDA7973CA7Fxs11eyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
> Roy Laws <RoyLaws@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon
>> installing it I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware
>> manufacturers provide 64 bit drivers, and even my anti-virus
>> programs will not work.
>
> Everything works for me, did you do your homework before installing?
>
>> Is this going to be a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to
>> be?
>
> That's a pretty ridiculous statement since there's a bunch of folks
> here running XP 64 bit.
>
>> Maybe they hope if they get enough people complaining about it,
>> the manufacturers will fall in line?
>
> It can't hurt to tell the manufacturers that you want 64 bit drivers
> and software.
>
>
>
> --
> XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:
> http://improve-usenet.org
 
Re: Vista 64 Bit

On Dec 5, 11:50 am, Roy Laws <RoyL...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> drivers

I'd like to see your hardware list.
 
Re: Vista 64 Bit

I just installed Windows Server 2008 64 bit (trial), the first 64 bit o/s I
have ever tried on a new system which is also the first 64 bit cpu system I
have ever had.
It installed with more driver support "out of the box" than my other system
with Vista 32 bit. The only device not recognized was the network adapter.
But a Vista 64 bit driver is on the motherboard disk and installed just
fine.
I have found that any devices I have that don't have 64 bit Vista drivers
also happen to have no 32 bit vista drivers either. An old scanner and a
finger print scanner.
So I might as well go the 64 bit route since I have 4GB of ram and can add
4GB more.

"Roy Laws" <RoyLaws@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F67AA3EA-67F5-4767-A912-5B2FD1E29CE2@microsoft.com...
>I would really like to enjoy the "benefits" of 64 bit, but upon installing
>it
> I found that absolutely NONE of my hardware manufacturers provide 64 bit
> drivers, and even my anti-virus programs will not work. Is this going to
> be
> a lame duck program as XP 64 bit turned out to be? Maybe that's why MS
> provides the disk free along with the 32 bit software. Maybe they hope if
> they get enough people complaining about it, the manufacturers will fall
> in
> line?
>
>
 

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