I need some help, deciding witch OS to use

This is on a Dell Inspiron 15-3541 laptop, right now the OS is Win 7 Home 32bit.
I payed online for a game called "Postal Redux" from Steam. I keep running into errors in trying to download the game. The Steam support told me that the game requires 64bit to be installed before it will even download let alone run. Now I have some what older (sound card driven) ham radio digital decoder software that I use. That doesn't like 64bit. They need 32bit to run. I have a 2nd laptop, a Sony VGN-NS110E OS Win 7 Home 32bit. I can put the ham radio prog's on the Sony laptop. But I still have a dilemma. Do I Install Win 7 home 64bit that I know just about inside, out and blindfolded. Or Win 10 Pro 64bit, that I barley know. OOO Win 10 is on a self booting USB flash drive. 1 other point that I have to make. The 32bit cd of Win 7 is showing it's age, a few scratches on it. I have had Win 7 since about a year after it came out on the market. The Win 7 64bit cd is fine because I have only used it a few times.

I made up the file "msinfo32.nfo" for Steam Support at there request. That's how they found the problem with the game. I am attaching the file.

samuria said:

We need to know system specs generally 64 bit is for PC with more than 4 gig of ram but it will run on less as 7 isn't supported soon 10 would be a good idea

Not difficult to get fresh installation media for 7x86, if you need it. You have 4gb ram on that machine. It should be able to run 7x64, if you want.

Up to you if you prefer win10. Your decision.

The problem that I have with Win 10 is the desktop is so different then I am used to. I was trying to fix an other laptop that had Win 10 Home 32bit on it. I lost the paper with the Win log on password. And that laptop had no legacy/CSM support in the bios. It could only boot from the HDD or a bootable USB flash drive, and before that I have never made a bootable USB flash drive. So none of my Windows self booting password recovery software (on cd) would work. That was my 1st time messing with Win 10. The Win 7 64bit cd is in new conduction, it only has been used about 2 or 3 times. It is just a question of, 1 it has to be 64bit to run "postal Redux" and 2 witch would be better Win 7 64bit or Win 10 64bit. I just don't know.

SIW2 said:

Not difficult to get fresh installation media for 7x86, if you need it. You have 4gb ram on that machine. It should be able to run 7x64, if you want.

Up to you if you prefer win10. Your decision.

reble said:

The problem that I have with Win 10 is the desktop is so different then I am used to. I was trying to fix an other laptop that had Win 10 Home 32bit on it. I lost the paper with the Win log on password. And that laptop had no legacy/CSM support in the bios. It could only boot from the HDD or a bootable USB flash drive, and before that I have never made a bootable USB flash drive. So none of my Windows self booting password recovery software (on cd) would work. That was my 1st time messing with Win 10. The Win 7 64bit cd is in new conduction, it only has been used about 2 or 3 times. It is just a question of, 1 it has to be 64bit to run "postal Redux" and 2 witch would be better Win 7 64bit or Win 10 64bit. I just don't know.

You could try both. Create 2 partitions. Install 7x64 on first and win10 x64 on second. Skip product key when installing.You get 30 day trial on win7 before you need to enter key - win10 was indefinite period the last time I looked.

I would use dism++ for updating.

Dism++.zip