Win7 64-bt down to 32-bit

[Gaigemasta]

is it possible to take win7 64bit and keep everythong on it and reinstall windows 7 again over the old one into a 32bit!?

[Key-J]

I highly doubt it.

The 64bit, is because of your Chipset (if not mistaken) so you wouldnt be able to run 32bit on it.

[Gaigemasta]

processor is co-architecture so x86-x64 is supported

[Azilius]

Your questions is kind of poorly worded..

you can install 32 bit or 64bit, whatever programs installed as 64 won't be runnable on the 32 though.

[Gaigemasta]

yah i dont mind that, i just wanna downgrade from x65 to x86 without losing all of my x86 programs

[Amarisa]

from what i know you can't downgrade unless you reinstall windows completely (would require another license too fyi)

if you reinstall the 32bit win7 over a 64bit it would be the same as if you reinstalled normally. just remember 32bit only supports 4GB of ram. then you just install your programs again.

[EvGa]

No, you can not.

[NuclearSilo]

yah i dont mind that, i just wanna downgrade from x65 to x86 without losing all of my x86 programs

x86 and x65 is the architecture of your chipset, you can't downgrade it

A 64 bit pc can run any 32 bit program so installing 32 bit window doesn't change anything and it's useless.

[Gaigemasta]

actually i have this hardware that doesnt support 64 bit cuz it messes up too bad, so i need a 32bit windows, but i need to keep my programs

[EvGa]

A network card from 1992? What hardware do you have that you can't find drivers for nowadays?

[Gaigemasta]

WinTv pvr-250

[NuclearSilo]

having a 32 bit system operating a 64 machine will greatly decrease the performance of that machine

[Gaigemasta]

im not worried about the machine, i just wanna use for the wintv hardware

[MrTwilliger]

Why don't you just back up your data, including the program exe's (or cd's) and just do a clean reinstall of everything?

[[SD]Master_Wong]

why is having wintv so important there are thousands of site out there that offer streaming or live streaming to tv all the shows you could want to watch you can watch on the internet

[Gaigemasta]

what would that be? and i wanna have my digital cable running through it

[[SD]Master_Wong]

stil possible to get freeview and what not for free off the internet im relativly sure of that

[KillAndChill]

Try reinstalling the drivers from the manufacturer's website (use vista drivers): http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/vista.html

[AnarChaos]

Bad news for you:

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/win7info.html

If you have more than 4 GB RAM, u should buy another product in this list which supports win7.

[Gaigemasta]

well the machine im using has 2gb of ram BUT its running win7 64bit as i said

[Azilius]

Lol

I have the same problem, same card. I've limited myself to 3gb ram through msconfig BUT media center and any other program still have glitches..

Downgrading to 32 bit won't slow down your PC (noticeably, ignore NS lol) and almost every application you have now will also be runnable.

You will have to do a 'fresh install' but everything backs up into a windows.old folder. You'll be fine.