Charles, please look before you leap. At least try it out on something other than your main machine. Things have sort of settled down for me with a lot of work but I had more misadventures with Win7 64 bit than I expected. For one thing StrataFrame didn't like it at all, with no promised date of compliance. That might be a deal killer right there for you. Several other of my everyday apps also bit the dust.
The irony is it doesn't even feel faster.
>I'm really in over my head on memory/OS stuff but definitely want to learn. If I have a single quad core processor, should I be using a 64bit OS ? Right now I'm running Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit with 4 gb. I am not sure if I need to be looking at a new box with 64 bit and multiple processors and 8gb + or just need to think about going to 64bit on this box and bump the memory.
>
>>>>>Uninstalling and then installing a new version of DxExperience and getting errors that the assemblies in the GAC cannot be deleted/updated etc. Look in c:\windows\assembly with explorer - no files. gacutil.exe /l = 0 files. AAARGH!.
>>>>>
>>>>>Turns out that in low memory conditions Windows 7 will shut off the Indexing Service which effectively shuts down the GAC - no read, no write, no see, no warning. Rebooting doesn't fix it, because it doesn't just stop the service - it turns it off as a Windows feature - just as if it were never installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Turning it back on in control panel / windows features and then rebooting and the GAC is back - installing and uninstalling works again etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>Took a *lot* of googling and fiddling to figure this out, so I decided to post here hoping it may save somebody else the agony.
>>>>
>>>>Wow - guess you are wishing for some MS devs to line up and slap them with the keyboard in Monty "Fishslap" style...
>>>
>>>that would be fun - would also be fun to have Win7 32 actually be able to see more than 3gb (though I suspect the actual problem is more akin to the old system resources issue)
>>
>>You can use more memory, but only as a faster replacement for the swap file - you swap similar to the extended memory very late in DOS, but needed for the large version of Foxpro/Dos. Mostly depending on your video card you can expect up to 3.5 GB of main memory, but each process still has its 2GB (3GB with the large switch) limitation - but if you have such a beefy HW-system needing to work in 32Bit, perhaps running 3 32Bit-VM's in parallell on 64Bit base is a better solution ?
>>
>>regards
>>
>>thomas
Previous
Reply
View the map of this thread
View the map of this thread starting from this message only
View all messages of this thread
View all messages of this thread starting from this message only