Building a new computer.
Bought Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Does that OS have a compatibility mode for 32-bit software? Or do I need to
run 64-bit versions of everything? Will using the 64-bit version of Vista
severely limit what software I can use? Here are some of the programs I can
think of now:

MS Office 2003
MS Visual Studio 2005
FTP Voyager
Boxer Text Editor
Nero
Photoshop CS2
Illustrator CS2
Acrobat
Flash 8
Poser 7
Game: Supreme Commander
Game: Planetside
iTunes
Fraps

Oh and I suppose I'll switch from Outlook to the mail program built into
Vista... ? Anything you all want to share about that? For one, does that
mail program have a built-in spam-checker? If so, how effective have you all
found it to be? If it doesn't, is there a 3rd-party spam-checker that works
with the 64-bit Vista mail program?

Thanks for any info/advice you can give! (I'm going to do a lot of Googling
now to see what I can learn while I hope for response to this post)
--
Scotter



--
Scotter

Windows x64 will run your 32bit software for the most part. You'd have a
tough time running just x64 apps since there are not very many.From your
list I know I only use Nero and you will have to download the latest from
their website for vista compatibility. Itunes may possibly have issues with
Vista. On the rest you will have to either load them and try or google to
find peoples experiences with them.

"Scotter" <spam@spam.net> wrote in message
news:urFQmUpWHHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Building a new computer.
> Bought Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
>
> Does that OS have a compatibility mode for 32-bit software? Or do I need
> to
> run 64-bit versions of everything? Will using the 64-bit version of Vista
> severely limit what software I can use? Here are some of the programs I
> can
> think of now:
>
> MS Office 2003
> MS Visual Studio 2005
> FTP Voyager
> Boxer Text Editor
> Nero
> Photoshop CS2
> Illustrator CS2
> Acrobat
> Flash 8
> Poser 7
> Game: Supreme Commander
> Game: Planetside
> iTunes
> Fraps
>
> Oh and I suppose I'll switch from Outlook to the mail program built into
> Vista... ? Anything you all want to share about that? For one, does that
> mail program have a built-in spam-checker? If so, how effective have you
> all
> found it to be? If it doesn't, is there a 3rd-party spam-checker that
> works
> with the 64-bit Vista mail program?
>
> Thanks for any info/advice you can give! (I'm going to do a lot of
> Googling
> now to see what I can learn while I hope for response to this post)
> --
> Scotter
>
>
>
> --
> Scotter
>
>

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.

Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in news:OOTJWN5WHHA.4132
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> * Scotter:

>> iTunes
>
> No iTunes for 64bit Windows. The last iTunes version that runs on 64bit
> Windows is 6.0.4 which is outdated and suffers from several security
> holes...

iTunes 7 runs fine on my Vista x64 install.

There are known compatibility problems with Vista versus iTunes7 (which I
haven't encountered), but it affects both 32bit and 64bit Vista, not just
64bit.