On 12/04/2012 21:30, dennis@home wrote:


"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 12/04/2012 14:07, hugh wrote:
In message , Mike Barnes
writes
hugh ]:
Anything which relies on 32 bit windows explorer will not run on 64
bit
W7. Unfortunately that includes my mail/usenet agent Turnpike which I
am loath to give up.

That's the one and only reason I've standardised on W7 32-bit.
Fortunately 4 GB is plenty for my (not exactly modest) needs.

It's probably plenty for the vast majority of people, but the "more is
better" brigade are running the show.
I run XP on 2 gb and it's enough most of the time.

Remember the OS base requirements are higher for Vista and Win7. So If
you are just ok with 2 on XP, you will need more on later OSs.

That's not true, win7 works well in less RAM than XP.

Not in my experience...

Hence why they have Win 7 Lite for use on netbooks that run XP just fine...

Minimum requirements for Win 7

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...m-requirements

XP SP3s office requirements are quite a bit less, but in the real world
will at least boot on a 512M machine and run one reasonable size program
at a time that way. Needless to say the virus scanner will tend to push
it over the edge though. You really need 2GB to be in the same boat on 7.

--
Cheers,

John.

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