Jeffrey Hall6 said:I also think it's time to move on to 7 - micu.
The only issue I'm running into is deciding whether to download the 32-bit or 64-bit version. What's the actual difference?
Right now, I'm running Windows XP, and it recognizes 3.23 GB of RAM.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Personally, I find myself missing XP. I tried installing Vista a while back, but ended up jumping right back to XP. Honestly, I feel like heading back to XP again—the Week: Control panel is a total mess, and don't even get me started on how disorganized the file management feels. While Windows Media Player is a slight improvement, I still find myself reaching for VLC most of the time. You can't pin everything you want to the taskbar, either. It frequently slips into sleep mode and wakes up acting completely erratic—almost like it's possessed. It’s frozen on me several times, too. Just like every other Windows version I've used, it starts feeling noticeably sluggish after being installed for a while. It boots up much slower than Windows XP Home. But the absolute worst part? All those annoying pop-ups asking, "Do you want to investigate why the system crashed?" followed by "Do you want to approve this or that?" And Internet Explorer is its own special kind of nightmare—clunky and awkward—it crashes constantly, asking if you want to return to the previous page (and if you say yes, there's a good chance it just crashes again). Oh, and one more thing—there's no built-in mail agent anymore. Now you have to install something like Live Mail from the web, which is incredibly cluttered and prone to crashing. Sometimes my emails actually send, and sometimes the screen just freezes mid-way.
All in all, it feels like a glorified version of Vista that doesn't work nearly as well as XP. If you're currently using XP, my advice is to skip 7. When they claim "you won't need drivers," it's only half true—in practice, you'll likely run into issues with most of your devices. Occasionally, windows will start glitching or "cloning" themselves in slow motion if you have a demanding program open, regardless of how powerful your hardware is. It's a disaster. It seems like they tried to mimic other operating systems, but failed to pull anything off perfectly.