raymac46 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) A lady we know just bought a new Dell Inspiron 518 desktop. She got 6 GB of memory and a 64 bit version of Vista. I'm going to help her with data migration and I was going to install some free software - but I know nothing about 64 bit O/Ss and little about Vista in general.Anybody know if the following will work with 64 bit Vista? Microsoft's compatibility center is of no use.(1) Thunderbird version 2.0.0.18(2) Firefox version 3.0.5(3) Open Office 3.0.0. for Windows.All of these are 32 bit apps as far as I know.Thanks. Edited January 15, 2009 by raymac46 Quote
goretsky Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 Hello,All of the applications you mentioned should work fine; none of them do anything particularly low-level that requires the use of a kernel-mode driver. Security (anti-virus, firewall and so forth), disk imaging, defragmentation and tape backup software--anything that need to interface directly with the 64-bit operating system--will need a 64-bit driver. If it is not clearly stated on the developer's web site whether a program works with a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, try contacting them directly or do a search at your favorite search engine for "{name of application} 64-bit" and see what is reported.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Quote
raymac46 Posted January 16, 2009 Author Posted January 16, 2009 Hello,All of the applications you mentioned should work fine; none of them do anything particularly low-level that requires the use of a kernel-mode driver. Security (anti-virus, firewall and so forth), disk imaging, defragmentation and tape backup software--anything that need to interface directly with the 64-bit operating system--will need a 64-bit driver. If it is not clearly stated on the developer's web site whether a program works with a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, try contacting them directly or do a search at your favorite search engine for "{name of application} 64-bit" and see what is reported.Regards,Aryeh GoretskyThanks. I did install OO 3.0 and Firefox and they worked great. I didn't bother with Thunderbird because the lady was OK with Windows Mail.By the way, there is NO WAY I could get a 32 bit XP operating system on a laptop to share a Canon printer with a 64 bit Vista desktop even though the printer was operating fine with the Vista 64 bit printer drivers. The laptop expected to find the printer with 32 bit drivers apparently and although it could "see" it OK would never print or install what's needed to work. Quote
goretsky Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Hello,Sometimes you can install a networked printer that does not specifically have support for networks by installing the device drivers first on the local computer as an attached printer and then redirecting the local printer to the network or setting up a second printer with the address of the computer hosting the printer on the network.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Quote
Urmas Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Sometimes you can install a networked printer that does not specifically have support for networks by installing the device drivers first on the local computer as an attached printer and then redirecting the local printer to the network or setting up a second printer with the address of the computer hosting the printer on the network.The way I've done it - between Linux machines using Samba, originally, but it works fine with ("VBoxed") Windows 7 as well - is by going to "add printer wizard" (Linux, Windows, same difference), choosing networked (Win) printer [if the wizard doesn't find a local printer, it suggests that by default], typing in the printer addy ( //ip_addy/printer_name in Linux, \\ip_addy\printer_name in Windows). Next, you can test if the share works and add the driver. Easy as that (except that there are no drivers for my older HP PSC 750 all-in-one for Windows 7, but that's another rant.) Quote
raymac46 Posted January 16, 2009 Author Posted January 16, 2009 Hello,Sometimes you can install a networked printer that does not specifically have support for networks by installing the device drivers first on the local computer as an attached printer and then redirecting the local printer to the network or setting up a second printer with the address of the computer hosting the printer on the network.Regards,Aryeh GoretskyYes that works if you are dealing with two 32 bit machines I think. The problem here is that the 64 bit drivers don't work in XP and the 32 bit drivers don't work in Vista 64. Quote
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