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For reasons that aren't very good, this week I am struggling with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. (It says so on the default wallpaper.) I'm not even smart enough to attack this OS with genuine AMD processors -- I am running Intel's imitations.

So far I haven't been able to get VDT to work very well. It starts and runs and creates desktops and switches them. A non-virtual deskto will run pretty much normally, and the Windows shell (Explorer) runs in it. A virtual desktop shows no task bar and no VDT bar (the botom of the screen is naked). Some instance of explorer crashes and sends a message home to MS about the time VDT finishes starting up, which may have something to do with the missing task bar in virtual desktops.

The default desktop seems to perform about as usual also. In virtual desktops, Desktops Explorer and Desktops Switcher and the Desktops Bar (across the top of the screen) seem to act normally.

Does anyone else have any experience with x64, or any suggestions (apart from the obvious retreat to the 32-bit version)? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks, and regards,

Ross

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Ross,

At this time, I never tested VDT on XP x64, so this is not a supported platform.

VDT is mostly written in C++ and I have many code to review before making it runable on a 64 bits platform.


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Very well. I have retreated from x64. It is faster, at least on my machine, but many of my devices lack drivers and many of my favorite software packages (e.g. VDT) run poorly if at all.

You might think, though, longer term about a 64-bit version at some time in the future. I predict that XP x64 will never be widely adopted, but Vista will release in 32- and 64-bit versions, maybe even simultaneously; and maybe the 64-bit version will have fewer bugs than XP x64 since the OS will be coded with a 64-bit version in mind.

Regards,
Ross

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