Contents tagged with Win64
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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.
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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, it's been painless. Programs have just worked, devices have just worked. There are relatively few native x64 applications, but for the most part it doesn't matter. The cases where it does matter—e.g., shell extensions such as TortoiseSVN—are available as 64-bit binaries.
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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, it was almost as bad again as it had been last Friday. It was infuriating and I was both entertaining and alarming my neighbors with my cursing.
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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.