Since MS so graciously won't allow me  to "Upgrade" my Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Pro, I have to go the clean install route with my new OS. I am so not looking forward to haveing to reinstall every application I use! I am however, glad to see that they included the 64 bit version as well as the 32 bit version for the same upgrade price so while I'm clean installing I might as well make the leap to 64 bits. Might as well get me some more memory too while I'm at it since 64 bit OS's can see more memory right? Oiy! My wallet is giving me a really dirty look right about now!

I've been using 8 Gig RAM for a couple of years now with Vista Ultimate, you won't look back if you go 64 bit, it's absolutely the right way to go!

just installing my W7 64 here.
took the route of dualbooting with my XP. I'll just copy files across at my pleasure then reduce the XP Partition to a minimum placeholder in case I need it.

aaand done. W7 installed and running. now to install my proggies :)

Hrmmm... Dual boot? Now there's an option I hadn't thought about. I guess it has to be installed to a different drive? Also, are you using Partition magic to change the size of the partition or some other software?

You should be able to use the Windows 7 disk to resize/create/delete your partitions, but you have to set your BIOS to boot from the DVD to get at those options.

I used something like partition magic yup. the exact name escapes me tho... I just created some space and installed to there.

Oh right, he wanted to create the partition for a dual boot, not a clean install.
Oops.

here we go I used this download.cnet.com/Paragon-Partition-Manager-Personal/3000-2248_4-10495078.html

 Dual Boot is definitely an option.

While you can't directly upgrade from Vista Home to W7 Premium, you CAN upgrade to Vista Premium, with a fee W7 Premium upgrade path that way.  Just FYI.

Well I have so far successfully done a dual boot clean install of Windows 7 Professional/64Bit on my D Drive that wasn't being used. Got my Avast Anti-virus installed, Office 2007 and Quicktime Pro. The 3D stuff will have to wait til tomorrow. All in all, this has to have been the EASIEST Windows install EVAH! Color me shocked! Now I just need to go and get me 4 2GIG Ram chips and max this puppy out at 8Gigs of ram!

Quote - I've been using 8 Gig RAM for a couple of years now with Vista Ultimate, you won't look back if you go 64 bit, it's absolutely the right way to go!

Hi. I need to know what Im doing wrong. I have a quad core with 6 gigs of ram.and vista 64. Im ready to roll back to xp 32 because while 64 bit "sees" the additional ram. it never accesses more than 4 even though I do 2 day poser renders and edit video and use photoshop. is there a bios "tweak" that allows 6 gig?
Thanks in advance
Steven

creatingimages, without knowing which version of Poser it is I'd hazard a guess that Poser is the problem & not Windows, unless you're using Poser7Pro you won't see it use more than 2Gb even when rendering, Poser7Pro has a 64bit version of Firefly.