OT'ish: Win7 32 bit and 64 bit OEM licences

The licence keys are different. Did you buy the machine and software from Novatech at the same time? If so you might have a good case against them.

Regards from

No, I'm re-vamping my X60s with an SSD and (supposedly) Win7. I should have run the MS compatibility tool first :-(

install linux, set up a 32 bit virtual computer and install the windoze on that.

Any one got Snow Leopard to install _&_ boot in a VM?

Avpx

Dunno, but I keep thinking of doing it..

Or an out-and-out hackintosh..

I must say my original comment was bollocks - I thought he had a 32 bit os and a 64 bit puter - but its the other way round.

Obncuiouly you cant build a 64 bit VM on a 32 bit platform.:-(

How does that solve the problem? He still can't use his 64 bit key!

Its probably cheaper to get a new cpu and MB than another copy of windows.

If you refuse the license conditions don't M$ offer a refund these days?

eBay it?

It's for a Lenovo Thinkpad, so not so easy

Yes, that's probably what I'll have to do if I can't find a buyer elsewhere. It cost £116.99 so yours (or someones!) for £100

have you tried the key, I think they should be interchangeable

Martin

I am half tempted

Wrong way around.

I don't know why, at present anyone wants 64 bit. seems to me that everything costs more if you do this and so many bits of software are still

Brian

They are for the retail versions, they may not be for the oem versions.

To use more than 2 gigabytes per process, or more than 3 and a bit gigabytes of memory overall.

I can't think of anything that costs more, unless you do choose to add extra memory, most processors have had 64 bit instructions for years, the O/P seems particularly unlucky to have chosen a 32 bit laptop.

They still run though.

Well I can now confirm that, regardless of what is said many times in fora and on websites, the 32 bit version of Win7 Pro OEM installs and runs perfectly happily using the key from the equivalent 64 bit version

Gues who was one of those so sure that it wouldn't work ;-)

MBQ

Well the upgrade copy of Home Premium I bought had 64 bit and 32 bit media in the box, and only one key....

I'm pretty sure 32 bit Windows supports PAE (total memory > 4GB). Given it was just about the last x86 OS to go 64 bit, it would have been one hell of a handicap to be stuck with < 4GB memory that long.