It took me a whole day to back up and install windows vista 64. Finally i can access my 8G of ram. Some softwares are heavily ram chewers (The gigantic adobe bundles) so even 3.25G ram is kinda skinny now.
Here are some of the issues:
1. Some OEM vista cdkeys are interchanageable for 32 bit and 64 bit versions. I have tried my ultimate 32 bit vista key and it works gracefully with the 64 bit DVD.
2. Cheap stuff = bad compatibility. The wireless dongle i bought for 15 bucks now shows the weakness over a pci wireless card: no driver for vista 64. I have to hook up two 3 meter cable to reach the router, and i still have the plastic connector back 3 years ago. And it rocks!
3. Weird file protection issues. Ok, here's what it is. Some softwares like acrobat reader will create some protection over certain files even admin can't delete in the first few tries. You need to 'takeover' the file ownership then 'grant' it to new administrators. Luckily these commands supports *.* batches...otherwise i have to manually deal with hundreds of files.
If you got access denied:
takeown /f file_name
icacls file_name /grant administrators:F
Then you may delete all the files.
There may be a hidden manual that can turn the entire vista into commandline?
4. There was a weird *.mov file on my computer in vista 32 that i could not remove before. First i thought it was related to hardware failure (NOOOO!) Chkdsk was totally green. I can play this file, it was fine, but any other operations, like rename, cut, delete, even right click on properties will freeze the explorer. I turned off OAS still no luck. Some googling showed that ppl have encountered similar issues, but no clear solutions were provided. Besides, this was not related to privileges.
Now i will see how vista works with my 8G of ram.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment