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Launching 32-bit applications from batchfiles on Win64
I've been running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 RC since June. It's been quite painless on the whole. One wrinkle that I ran into was with some batchfiles which launch applications in %ProgramFiles% (normally C:\Program Files ). Due to the magic WOW64...
Posted: Sep 11 2009, 11:16 PM by george_v_reilly | with 3 comment(s)
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64-bit Windows 7
I mentioned three weeks ago that I had just repaved my work dev box and installed the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 RC. Nine or ten years after I first ported parts of IIS to Win64, I am finally running my main desktop on 64-bit Windows. With one exception...
Posted: Jul 10 2009, 11:12 PM by george_v_reilly | with 3 comment(s)
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When Video Cards Go Bad
I complained a week ago about my display driver going berserk . I blamed Windows Update, since it happened within hours of a pile of updates being installed. I upgraded to the latest beta NVidia drivers on Monday and it helped for a while, but by Wednesday...
Posted: Jun 19 2009, 09:50 PM by george_v_reilly | with 4 comment(s)
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Win64 Vim 7.2.182
I updated the Win64 binaries of Vim at vim-win3264 from Vim 7.2.000 to 7.2.182. I'm amazed that the original binaries were downloaded over 11,000 times since last August.
Posted: May 21 2009, 11:11 PM by george_v_reilly | with 4 comment(s)
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