Operating System Changed

Well, I switched my operating system from Windows Vista Home Premium to WindowsXP Professional x64 Service    Pack 2.

Vista was becoming a pain in the rear not letting a lot of my older programs run. My favorite program for looking at my drives (Power Desk) stopped working awhile ago. This ticked me off. It also meant that other older programs would stop working as well.

So I decided to switch operating systems back to something that would work better and be more stable.

I picked the XP Professional 64-BIT version thinking it would be a little more secure then the 32-BIT version, which I’m pretty sure it is.

There are a few things I’m finding out about it though.

Any programs from Norton, McAffee, and Webroot will not work in a 64-BIT operating system environment. That means all the money I have invested in Norton and Webroot is down the tube. I just paid for another year on Webroot SpySweeper. At least my 2 sons can use it. It was a 3 license package.

So I bought AVG Internet Security. The current version is 7.5. At least I’ll have some protection while surfing the internet.

I also had to buy Diskeeper Professional 2008 to take care of my hard drives. I have all the versions of Diskeeper back to version 9. The problem was version 9 was a full version. All the rest are upgrades all the way to 2007. Wouldn’t you know, version 9 Professional isn’t compatible with a 64-BIT operating system and wouldn’t install because of it.

Here is something that is really funny.

Microsoft Live! programs will not work with 64-BIT machines.

But the Microsoft Live! Writer BETA does work with it. So I’m using the BETA to write to my blogs. I found a separate copy of Windows Live Messenger over on download.com and it also installed without a hitch.

That’s all for now!