On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:29:09 -0000, John Rumm wrote:

On 09/01/2014 21:17, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:39:33 -0000, John Rumm
wrote:

On 08/01/2014 17:13, Jim Hawkins wrote:
"Clive George" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 07/01/2014 18:21, Jim Hawkins wrote:


Support/patches.
64 bit if you're sensible and hence ability to use more than 3G memory.
Task manager is better.
It's more stable IME.



Money if the upgrade costs?
UAC can be a bit of a pain if you set it up wrong.


Is it possible to upgrade a 32bit machine (whatever the OS)
to its 64 bit equivalent - or do you have to buy new ?

If the hardware is already 64 bit, then yes you can just upgrade OS. If
the hardware is 32 only, then you will need new mobo, cpu and ram
probably.

Not exactly, if you change from 32 to 64 you lose things:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...#1TC=windows-7

The question was about hardware...

The question was can you "UPGRADE", which implies not reinstalling the OS from scratch.

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