November 2005 - Andre Da Costa - Extended64 - The 64-Bit Windows Community

Microsoft customers face 64bit question

Microsoft’s decision to make Exchange and other key future products exclusive to 64bit servers could delay buyers switching to the new programs. Earlier this month, Microsoft said that “to help customers take full advantage of the power of 64bit computing...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2005 10:50 AM by Andre Da Costa

NVIDIA ForceWare Version: 81.95 WHQL XP x64

via ActiveWin Issues Resolved in Version 81.95 The following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 81.94: Single GPU Issues Resolved There is a possible incompatibility between the ForceWare graphics driver and the current WDM driver...

Published Fri, Nov 25 2005 10:27 AM by Andre Da Costa

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Abstract This document provides information regarding features in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition that differ in functionality from Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2). It is important to note that this document uses the Windows XP Professional...

Published Fri, Nov 25 2005 10:22 AM by Andre Da Costa

Windows Media Connect, XBOX 360 and Windows x64

Kevin Lowe provided some information from the Windows Media Newsgroup in the Windows 64 bit newsgroup about installing Windows Media Connect on Windows XP Professional x64. Here's some instructions provided in the Windows Media newsgroup for installing...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2005 10:50 AM by Andre Da Costa

X-FI Elite Pro Drivers for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

X-Fi Elite Pro Windows XP Professional x64 Edition drivers are available for download here Thanks LDJ

Published Tue, Nov 15 2005 4:54 PM by Andre Da Costa

nVidia Geforce 81.94 Driver for Windows XP Professional x64

nVidia has released today a new set of drivers for their graphics card. Download it here Thanks Carlos

Published Mon, Nov 14 2005 5:17 PM by Andre Da Costa

Canon Pixma Printer drivers for Windows XP Professional x64

Thanks to LDJ for the info. Canon has released x64 drivers for the PIXMA printers, can download the at: http://software.canon-europe.com/

Published Mon, Nov 14 2005 9:24 AM by Andre Da Costa

Security Update 896424 for Windows XP Professional x64

Download here Additional information: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896424

Published Wed, Nov 09 2005 11:32 AM by Andre Da Costa

Determining if an Application uses a 16-Bit Installer

The support tools on the cd in the cab file contain filever.exe. You can use this to determine what platform a file or files are. Filever Prints file version information. filever [/S] [/V] [/E] [/X] [/B] [/A] [/D] [[drive:][path][filename]] /S Displays...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2005 6:34 PM by Andre Da Costa

Writing Applications for Windows x64

Chuck Walbourn of Microsoft answers some questions posted in the Windows x64 newsgroup about writing applications for the Windows x64 platform. The 64-bit programming model for Windows 32 is still Win32. In 64-bit mode, both _WIN32 and _WIN64 should be...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2005 5:56 PM by Andre Da Costa

Upgrading an AMD64 Turion Laptop to Windows XP x64 Edition

From reading the posts in the Microsoft Windows 64 Bit Edition newsgroup on a regular basis, I learned what I needed to know to be prepared for an upgrade to 64 bit Windows. Obtaining 64 bit drivers appeared to be the biggest challenge. After checking...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2005 5:07 PM by Andre Da Costa

Webcast x64 Edition

From Charlie Russel : Hey, folks, I'll be doing another round (with updates) of my Introduction to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition on Wednesday morning. Feel free to drop by and ask good questions. (good questions being defined as one's I know the...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2005 1:03 PM by Andre Da Costa

New Realtek Audio Drivers for Windows x64

Realtek has released brand new x64 audio drivers for their onboard chipset included as 7.1 audio in many motherboards. The new version is A3.79, dated November 7th. Download here FTP download link here Note: Download size is a little bit over 17 MBs because...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2005 12:57 PM by Andre Da Costa

Diffences between Upgrading versus Repair

Darrell Gorter [MSFT] details the differences between Upgrading versus Repairing Windows XP. It would be preferable to do an upgrade from inside the OS rather than a repair if possible. If the evaluation period has not expired, then just insert the cd...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2005 6:10 PM by Andre Da Costa

Activating Windows XP Professional x64 after Grace Period

A user in the 64 bit newsgroups just encountered a problem activating his copy of Windows XP Professional x64 after the grace period. Here are some steps by Darrell Gorter [MSFT] to bypass this issue. Restart your computer in safe mode, (instructions...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2005 6:00 PM by Andre Da Costa

November 2005 - Andre Da Costa

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Windows x64 Resources

Downloads

Security

Archives