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My buddy is running Vista 32bit, but its showing 4gb of ram...weird. Anyways since he cant do an upgrade to W7 64bit, he wants a fresh install, though has all his info, games, and accounts. How well does the vista backup work to transfer to windows 7???
You can transfer your personal data any way you like and use Windows 7's Easy Transfer Wizard to transfer your settings. Note that you can use transfer wizards to go from 32 to 64-bit, but not the other way around.
Windows 7's Easy Transfer is much better than in Vista and XP.
Not sure what he will do, just curious why his 32bit install shows all 4gb of ram..
There was a patch (or even SP1) that ensured Vista showed the correct amount of RAM installed in your machine. However, as you're undoubtedly aware, Vista 32bit would only address approx 3gb