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Windows 7 - 64 vs 32
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| 08-09-2011 | #1 |
| | 64 vs 32 I just tried printing a form off a website and it would not print. I was using 64bit. I went back onto the site, using 32bit, and it printed out just fine. What might be the problem using 64bit? |
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| 08-09-2011 | #2 |
| | This may seem like a stupid question, but if your printer set up and working properly on x64? Were you trying to use the x64 version of your browser? |
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| 08-09-2011 | #3 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by DeaconFrost  This may seem like a stupid question, but if your printer set up and working properly on x64? Were you trying to use the x64 version of your browser? Secondly, yes, that is part of my question. In 64 bit it doesn't work, but using 32 bit it worked. I did recently d/l some 'patch' from MS (about printers, or something), but I can't find it in my control panel of programs & d/l'ed patches. If I could locate it, I would try and uninstall it and see if that is the problem. |
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| 08-09-2011 | #4 |
| | My first question means, can you print anything else from Windows x64? Is it just this web page you can't print from? The second is about the actual web browser. Windows x64 comes with two browsers...x64 and x86. The default is x86 and the one you should be using. The x64 browsers can still have issues, such as not handling printing. |
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| 08-09-2011 | #5 |
| | I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium I thought the 2 browsers installed were 32 & 64 bit? I have never heard of a 86 bit. Anyhows, I can print a word doc in 64 bit, but it appears nothing from a website. |
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| 08-09-2011 | #6 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by skostro I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium I thought the 2 browsers installed were 32 & 64 bit? I have never heard of a 86 bit. Anyhows, I can print a word doc in 64 bit, but it appears nothing from a website. (It's confusing, but X86 means using the original 32 bit Intel CPU instruction set. It's not an explicit address space.) |
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| 08-09-2011 | #7 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by skostro I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium I thought the 2 browsers installed were 32 & 64 bit? I have never heard of a 86 bit. Anyhows, I can print a word doc in 64 bit, but it appears nothing from a website. Yes |
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| 08-10-2011 | #8 |
| | Okay, now we are getting somewhere...maybe. You can print a Word document when you are in Windows 7 64-bit? If so, then the printer is installed correctly. You still didn't answer the question about the browsers, so make sure you are trying the x86 (32 bit) default web browser, and not the x64 (64 bit) browser. |
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| 08-10-2011 | #9 |
| | If you want 4 or more gigs of ram then 64bit is the way forward, I loved 32bit but 64bit is the future! Just thought I'd throw that out there guys xD |
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| 08-10-2011 | #10 |
| | IE9-64bit is a crippled version. You should use IE9-32bit as MS put their effort into the 32bit version and only token effort into the 64bit version. IE9-64bit still has the old engine from IE-8 and its performance is slower then the 32bit version. Don't know what the problem with printing is but the best choice is to stick with the 32bit version. Maybe this will change when IE10 is released. Jim  |
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