Oddly, I could find nothing on the web to tell me how much less memory the 32bit version would use. Since the laptop RAM slots were full, we couldn’t add any more memory, I decided to downgrade the 64bit system to 32bit to free some RAM memory up. It didn’t actually crash (permanently lock up or BSOD) that I can recall, but it would regularly slow to a crawl and give warnings to close programs because all memory was used up. Recently I obtained a laptop with Windows 7 (Ultimate) 64bit with only 2 gigabytes of ram memory.Īfter a bit of use, the laptop turned annoying to use because it was constantly running out of memory with only a browser running a few Tabs. Yes, you can downgrade a Windows 7 system from 64 bit to 32 bit with only a little bit of inconvenience and cost in time while (contrary to most web advice) you get to keep all your documents and folders AND your 32 bit programs and their settings !
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