Unless it does, you can't do it even with a clean installation. I believe that this would mean I need to basically format my computer and do a brand new install of Windows 7 bit. If this is the case, what would be the best way to keep all my current settings, registry entries, programs etc intact? It's not a matter of the best way; the question is whether there is any way to do this. And sorry to tell you that there is no way.
That's the nature of a clean installation--you lose your current settings, registry entries, programs etc. So please answer the question above: "and why do you want to do this?
My reason for wanting to switch to bit is because a lot of games nowadays are only being made for bit systems. That seems to be the way things are going. It's the price of progress, I suppose. I know next to nothing about games, so I can't comment on that. But it is certainly true that more and more software of all types will be written for bit Windows and before much more time has passed, only old software will be bit.
In such cases, because a bit operating system can handle large amounts of memory more efficiently than a bit operating system, a bit system can be more responsive when running several programs at the same time and switching between them frequently. To run a bit version of Windows, your computer must have a bit-capable processor. To find out if your processor is bit-capable, do the following. Select the Start button , and then select Control Panel.
In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools , and then, in the list of results, select Performance Information and Tools. In the System section, you can see what type of operating system you're currently running under System type , and whether or not you can run a bit version of Windows under bit capable.
If your computer is already running a bit version of Windows, you won't see the bit capable listing. Find out how to choose between the bit or bit version of Office. Windows 10 Windows 8. How do I upgrade from the bit to the bit version of Windows? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
Canadian Tech. Why do you want to do this? Yep there's usually a good reason a machine comes preinstalled with 32 bit os It might only have 3gb of memory which is good for 32 bit or it might have even less than that. So you'd have to ask the computer manufacture anyway so let use know what they say ;. In reply to Canadian Tech's post on June 20, In reply to ThrashZone's post on June 20, In reply to brianeastwood.
You'll have to do a clean install of 64 bit if you want to use most of the 8 GB. Otherwise as you found out , you can only use 3. This site in other languages x. Windows 7 includes the new Internet Explorer 9 and Users are also able to disable many more Windows components than was possible in Windows Vista.
Furthermore, Windows 7 supports the mounting of a virtual hard disk VHD as a normal data storage, and the bootloader delivered with Windows 7 can boot the Windows system from a VHD; however, this ability is only available in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions. The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP of Windows 7 is also enhanced to support real-time multimedia application including video playback and 3D games, thus allowing use of DirectX 10 in remote desktop environments.
The three application limit, previously present in the Windows Vista Starter Edition, has been removed from Windows 7. Certain capabilities and programs that were a part of Windows Vista are no longer present or have been changed, resulting in the removal of certain functionalities.
Four applications bundled with Windows Vista — Windows Photo Gallery , Windows Movie Maker , Windows Calendar and Windows Mail — are not included with Windows 7, but applications with close functionality are instead available for free in a separate package called Windows Live Essentials which can be downloaded on the Microsoft website.
Although Windows Ultimate Extras was removed, many of the extras can be installed separately. InkBall may also be installed into Windows 7. Major features were planned for Blackcomb, including an emphasis on searching and querying data and an advanced storage system named WinFS to enable such scenarios. However, an interim, minor release, codenamed " Longhorn ," was announced for , delaying the development of Blackcomb. By the middle of , however, Longhorn had acquired some of the features originally intended for Blackcomb.
After three major viruses exploited flaws in Windows operating systems within a short time period in , Microsoft changed its development priorities, putting some of Longhorn's major development work on hold while developing new service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server Development of Longhorn Windows Vista was also restarted, and thus delayed, in August A number of features were cut from Longhorn.
Blackcomb was renamed Vienna in early and would soon be cancelled due to its scope [7] and replaced with a new project, Windows Codename "7" in In , it was announced that Windows 7 would also be the official name of the operating system.
There has been some confusion over naming the product Windows 7, while versioning it as 6. The first external release to select Microsoft partners came in January with Milestone 1 , build Copies of Windows 7 build were distributed at the end of the conference; however, the demonstrated taskbar was disabled in this build. According to a performance test by ZDNet, Windows 7 Beta beat both Windows XP and Vista in several key areas; including boot and shutdown time and working with files, such as loading documents.
Other areas did not beat XP; including PC Pro benchmarks for typical office activities and video editing, which remain identical to Vista and slower than XP. On January 7, , the bit version of the Windows 7 Beta build was leaked onto the web, with some torrents being infected with a trojan.
The Beta was to be publicly released January 9, , and Microsoft initially planned for the download to be made available to 2. However, access to the downloads was delayed because of high traffic.
The download limit was also extended, initially until January 24, then again to February People who did not complete downloading the beta had two extra days to complete the download. After February 12, unfinished downloads became unable to complete. Users could still obtain product keys from Microsoft to activate their copies of Windows 7 Beta, which expired on August 1, On May 5, it became available to the general public, although it had also been leaked onto the Internet via BitTorrent.
The release candidate was available in five languages and expired on June 1, , with shutdowns every two hours starting March 1, Microsoft stated that Windows 7 would be released to the general public on October 22, Microsoft announced that Windows 7, along with Windows Server R2 , was released to manufacturing on July 22, Windows 7 RTM is build An estimated developers worked on Windows 7. These were broadly divided into "core operating system" and "Windows client experience", in turn organized into 25 teams of around 40 developers on average.
Bill Gates , in an interview with Newsweek , suggested that this version of Windows would be more "user-centric".
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