{"id":127,"date":"2011-06-14T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T03:11:34","slug":"going-to-windows-7-64-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/going-to-windows-7-64-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Windows 7 64-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is probably going to be one of my shortest posts.<\/p>\n

When I first installed Windows 7<\/a>, I was initially worried about the compatibility problems that I may have if I had installed the 64 bit<\/a> version just like I had with WinXP 64-bit. Many software didn’t have a 64-bit version, and still don’t. However after about a year, I’ve seen almost no difference in terms of compatibility between Win7 32-bit and Win7 64-bit.<\/p>\n

Further, recently my PC started acting really strangely – it would hang or freeze at random times and I couldn’t pinpoint it at all.<\/p>\n

Also, I have been running Windows 7 for over a year now. It’s about the right time for a full reformat anyway.<\/p>\n

Since I have my C: drive as a standalone partition, wiping it out and reformatting it is not much of a problem. My data (ie documents, pictures, savegames etc) is safely tucked away in other partitions. Also, having a NAS helps somewhat too, since all your stuff are actually not on the PC but on a network drive somewhere.<\/p>\n

Thus I decided now would be a good time to reformat and go up to 64-bit.<\/p>\n

Long story short, after booting up Win7 64-bit for the first time, the weird problems of hanging and freezing persisted. Thus it couldn’t be a software problem, had to be hardware-related. I spent a day thinking about this, wondering what I needed to swap out\/upgrade. I even began looking at prices for CPUs (the chip, not the computer case), motherboards, RAMs etc.<\/p>\n

Eventually I narrowed it down to my old 5-year-old 250GB harddisk. I wish I had installed a SMART monitor for the harddisk. I had enabled SMART in the BIOS but didn’t follow up by installing a monitor for it, so when the harddisk started to fail I was unaware. Anyway now I do, so the same thing shouldn’t happen again, I hope!<\/p>\n

You know what I hate about reformatting?<\/p>\n

After the reformat I would have to re-install EVERYTHING.. my Firefox, my Thunderbird, my games, etc. One saving grace is Steam – whatever games I had installed under Steam is all right back when I re-installed the Steam client<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is probably going to be one of my shortest posts. When I first installed Windows 7, I was initially worried about the compatibility problems that I may have if I had installed the 64 bit version just like I had with WinXP 64-bit. Many software didn’t have a 64-bit version, and still don’t. However … Continue reading Going to Windows 7 64-bit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-self","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}