Windows 7 vs xp 64 bit performance

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With Windows XP, think opaque, with Windows 7, think translucent. The Documents and Settings folder, the location for all protected personal files and folders, has been replaced with a simple Users folders.

Not a big deal, but many tech support personnel have spent hundreds of hours answering the simple question of where the Documents and Settings folder went in Windows 7. The Start menu in Windows 7 has been completely reworked and has been met with several criticisms.

No longer does the Start menu use fly-outs and scroll-outs to show you what shortcuts to programs and folders you have on your computer. Introduced in Office , it is clear that Microsoft will continue to push the Ribbon interface over the more familiar drop-down menu and toolbar approach to using programs. If you want to get a taste of the Ribbon, start up Microsoft Paint or WordPad on a computer running Windows 7 and you can see for yourself whether the Ribbon is going to be useful or just another technology forced upon you.

Windows 7 Libraries are nothing more than collections of files that are similar. Similar content that is located in multiple areas of your computer are brought together into the Library system to make finding files easier. Of course, you can choose to use or not use Libraries depending on whether you find them useful.

However, if you store a lot of media on your computer such as music or video and you want access to them without having to physically move them the same location or folder, Libraries may be for you.

If you are a gamer, you know that you must keep up with advances in both hardware and software technology to get the most from your games. You are clearly in some exclusive club that most of us are not. Most people have never even heard of XP 64, yet you have a whole group of people that use it and even at that apparently have not even thought of other OSes.

Regardless of your expierence with XP64, I think it is fairly well known I have not, nor will I try to fact check this that XP 64 has horrible compatibility problems. Those were addressed in Vista 64, and further adressed in 7 Subpar driver support, as you said.

Is ALL of that fixed now? I bet it isn't, I bet there is some new hardware out there that has vista and 7 64bit support that isn't supported in XP You are latching onto a dying OS. Embrace and further argue for the server side of it, your argument on the user side is dying with and before the support for Vista. Know why? Because Microsoft didn't make bit versions of XP--not for consumers, anyway.

But I essentially don't get the point: Why choose a dying, out-dated system?! That sounds like the kinda thing my dad would do. Just because "it has been around longer", in his words. There are some situations where you need the older OS Marno. For instance, in our medical departments here they have very expensive hardware that requires Windows 98 and drivers that only work when you use that OS.

You have to make other arrangements in situations like this such as putting up hardware firewalls around these machines. I get it. But IMHO that's unlikely the case with gaming. Windows 7 x64 has the option to install and run in Windows Xp mode.

It also has Compatibility mode for running software designed for any of the older versions of Windows. I have a few software that will only run in Windows 98 compatibility mode. Windows XP Pro x64 on my PC is rock solid, and compatiable with all of my peripheral devices - printer, scanner, TV tuner, and sound card! XP64 is far superior to Win7 the only possible reason to use Win7 would be if you played your game at DX11 max res,for anything else a properly setup XP64 machine will kick a Win7 in the nuts.

As I understand it, the argument is that despite many technical, physical, and ergonomic deficiencies, XP64 can cause testicular injury to the corresponding Windows 7 system, to wit bit. Which is fair enough Doctor John said:. Benchmarks and comparisons, Windows 7 vs.

Windows XP bit , this is a pretty easy contest for me to call! Without diving into to much technical mumbo jumbo, we will simply bring up " resources "! I've been using Windows XP both bit and bit since the year , with a slight break away while using Windows Vista bit back in for about a year.