My production PC has, at least from the days when I switched from an Apple //e and then an IBM PC compatible, been a mid or full-size tower. And it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to attach the large keyboard and monitor to a laptop, though I know that this is a valid approach for some users. I’m a lousy typist to start out, and an even poorer one on a laptop keyboard. I’ve given a laptop as my main machine a lot of thought, and while it’s an attractive option, I’m just not willing to give up my 27-inch monitor and full-size keyboard. To a large degree, this makes sense given that today’s laptops are just as powerful and have just as much memory (RAM & hard disk) as many desktops. Sales figures over the past several years indicate that many users are moving from desktops to laptops, and tablets. Both have Celerons and 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drives, and both seem to offer decent performance for the types of applications I run. And I’m testing two new 15-inch laptops from Acer and Lenovo. I already have several tablets and an inexpensive 15-inch HP laptop. And the $169 price is very reasonable if it works as claimed. So when the vendor tells me that their Migration Kit will let me move applications and files from a 32-bit environment to a 64-bit one, I’m inclined to believe them. And I’ve also used the vendor’s Rescue Kit to recover files and applications from a hard disk salvaged from a PC that died. I’ve used Zinstall’s transfer software to go from an old 32-bit machine to a new one without losing any significant applications, though I did have to reregister MS Office.
Zinstall migration kit pro install#
So the question is: If I’m going to migrate my applications and file from 32-bit Windows 7 Professional to 64-bit Windows 10 Enterprise, what should my target system look like?īefore someone wiser than myself points out that you can’t migrate from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit one without winding up with a clean install on the target, empty of applications, I’ll point out that it seems to be possible with an application from Zinstall called Zinstall Migration Kit Pro. But some of the applications I want to run, such as the new version of Techsmith’s Camtasia 9, only run in a 64-bit version of the operating system.
Zinstall migration kit pro Patch#
There is a method to access more than the 4GB RAM limit on 32-bit versions of Windows by using a patch of PAE (physical address extension). And, except for the 3D print program asking me to add memory, it’s never been a problem.
I’ve had 24GB of fast RAM in my PC since I built it, and all this time it just never dawned on me that 32-bit Windows only uses 4GB of RAM no matter how much is installed. Perhaps the main motivation for making a move is I simply want to move from a 32-bit operating system to a 64-bit one.