One for Vista 64 users

Tunney · 9 Sep 2008 at 13:42

When Vista first came out I bought the 64-bit version and was severely disappointed. The drivers for my "Ready for Vista" motherboard caused all kinds of stability woes and lots of my applications didn't work.

I've now got a different motherboard and I've upgraded to 4GB of RAM. I think I'm now ready to give Vista another go.

Before I do, I was wondering if anyone had problems with any of the following programmes under Vista 64:

iTunes
Nokia PC Suite/Software Updater
Office 2000 (yes, still using it )
Handbrake
Gimp
Filezilla
mIRC
Picasa
AnyDVD
Firefox/Chrome
uTorrent

Cheers.

modo77 · 9 Sep 2008 at 13:44

itunes, office, filezilla, mirc, firefox and utorrent are fine. I don't use the others

Credo · 9 Sep 2008 at 13:48

For me, GIMP behaved a bit oddly, so I ditched it and use Paint.NET now, free and does what I need.

Hainar · 9 Sep 2008 at 14:09

I'm using office 2000 in vista 64 with no issues at all, it even installed better than i remember it doing so on xp...

lsg1r · 9 Sep 2008 at 14:39

itunes has a bit of an issue with graphics, I get black areas on load up and need to minimise it to get the missing parts. The rest of it works ok.

mr.sly · 9 Sep 2008 at 14:42

Filezilla
mIRC
Picasa
AnyDVD
Firefox/Chrome
uTorrent

All fine. Also version 3 of Picasa is out now as well which is very nice.

Tunney · 9 Sep 2008 at 16:46

Excellent. Cheers guys.

mrgubby · 9 Sep 2008 at 17:05

If you have Outlook 2000 as part of Office you may have problems, I think that there are various issues with it and Vista

Bony Maloney · 9 Sep 2008 at 17:08

Tunney said:
following programmes under Vista 64:

Nokia PC Suite/Software Updater

AnyDVD

Firefox/Chrome

uTorrent

Cheers.

No problems with any of these and Vista x64

mrk · 9 Sep 2008 at 18:41

I have 65 pieces of software installed on Vista64 and have yet to encounter an issue