why is there not a windows 7 64-bit discussion group?

View Poll Results: do we need a windows 7 64-bit only forum section?

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  • Yes we need a 64-bit only forum section

    9 14.29%
  • No, its fun to confuse the two.

    9 14.29%
  • There is just no need.

    45 71.43%
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  1. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #21

    whs said:
    I fail to see the point. I run both x86 and x64 Windows7 and my problems (if any) seem to be the same.
    +1

    whs said:
    I fail to see the point. At best, you would catch a 5% difference.
    +1, again...

    Following the logics of OP: I'm running Ultimate and Enterprise editions because of Bitlocker and language packs. Should we get Win7 x86 Ultimate & Enterprise forums, and Win7 x64 Ultimate & Enterprise Forums, because issues with these two editions are so different?

    Starter and Home Basic are so reduced, and different than other editions, so do we need Win7 x86 Starter and Home Basic forums and Win7 x64 Starter and Home Basic forums?

    You see where I'm going?

    Kari
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  2. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #22

    Well said Kari!
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  3. Posts : 18
    win7 64 & ubuntu 64
    Thread Starter
       #23

    Kari said:
    Starter and Home Basic are so reduced, and different than other editions, so do we need Win7 x86 Starter and Home Basic forums and Win7 x64 Starter and Home Basic forums?

    You see where I'm going?

    Kari

    is there any software that Ultimate & Enterprise will run that starter and home will not?
    are there different drivers?
    are the updates the same? or do special ones come out for Ultimate & Enterprise?
    any other basic limitations?

    seems to me if issues like that affected Ultimate & Enterprise and not starter and home basic
    they should have a section on the forum also.

    should some 32 bit user have to wade pages of issues of getting a nice 64-bit browser to work with flash, issues that dont matter to him at all?
    how about the newest video driver for his card? wait once again not his problem and not info he can use
    and about 5000 more issues like this will crop up
    leaving the post to remember to post his version of windows and the version of the software he wants to use.
    just take a look at the post of some guy looking for a 64-bit image browser
    about 20 idiots chimed in about the cool 32bit viewer they were using telling him it worked fine in 64-bit. i bet he enjoyed filtering all that out. just look at the guy telling my with out flash player my life will not exist

    fact is there are major operating differences between 32bit and 64 bit.
    today the issues are small as it will take time for pure 64bit software and hardware to come out.
    and when they do, there will be TONS of newbies who cant tell the difference. if half the conversation is what bit is the software and what bit is the os it will be a night mare.

    Windows 8 Server Will Support Exclusively 64-Bit (x64) CPUs

    http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...ing-32-bit.ars
    http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

    nutz
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  4. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #24

    i give up... i think this pic pretty much sums up the thread
    why is there not a windows 7 64-bit discussion group? Attached Images why is there not a windows 7 64-bit discussion group?-122106troll_header.jpg 
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  5. Posts : 1,241
    Windows 7 Profesional x86, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
       #25

    Yet again it all boils down to general 'everyone no matter what version of Windows 7 they are running could expierience this problem' such as registry BSODs which is probably 80%+ of this forum or specialist problems like the age old flash in a 64 bit browser problem or how to get Windows XP mode apps in the Windows 7 start menu.

    If we're looking to satisfy the masses it would be easier to not have specialist pages and lump them all in together and hope the specialist ones get spotted by specialists and are solved.

    However if we had specialist forums, for example 64 bit specific specialist problems, who's to say we shouldn't keep creating sparsely populated niche forums for everything?

    Oli

    EDIT: For the love of Atheizmo, how do you keep beating me to put down posts severedsolo?!???!?!!!
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  6. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #26

    quick links>Live Posts and very fast typing fingers
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  7. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #27

    You really don't have to use the Seven Forums. Membership here is voluntary, nobody is forcing you. Feel free to setup an x64 forum and stop trolling here.

    Your posts, this whole thread, are pointless. Please try to find a more intelligent way to show how clever you are, as this seems to be your main point.

    Kari
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  8. Posts : 18
    win7 64 & ubuntu 64
    Thread Starter
       #28

    someone has a different opinion. and is not willing to conform and agree with you
    so you think im a troll
    how nice for you.

    you never answered my question..


    is there any software that Ultimate & Enterprise will run that starter and home will not?
    are there different drivers?
    are the updates the same? or do special ones come out for Ultimate & Enterprise?
    any other basic limitations?

    not lots of intelligent conversion going on. what is now degraded into name calling.
    good luck with that.

    i can see why they have a chill out room
    im just surprised it dose not have more posts in in
    unless they delete them from time to time to reduce the impact

    nutz
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  9. Posts : 1,241
    Windows 7 Profesional x86, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
       #29

    Break it up Kari and Nutpantz you know what the consiquences for fighting can be.

    In answer to your questions Nutpantz all the updates (except perhaps Windows Aero ones) are the same for every version of 7. The drivers are all the same. Pro, enterprise and ultimate will run Windows XP mode as well as being able to perform certain network connectivety tasks as well as some other stuff I don't use that the other versions can't do. Home Basic and below don't support Aero.

    Oli
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  10. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #30

    There are more differences between Ultimate / Enterprise and the other editions, than there is between x86 and x64. If you were half so clever you'd like us to believe, you would have noticed it yourself. Same with Starter compared with the rest. Compare Windows 7 Editions

    Over 70,000 members here, mostly quite happy, and then come you. Second day as a member, 16 posts, over third of them in this thread, which you started with your third post.

    Yes, it's trolling. I beg you to start your own x64 forum, so you can feel yourself better.

    Kari
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