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I'm not seeing any memory leaks. When I have only my usual background programs running the machine uses 1.4 GB all day every day. Whether it's been running a week, or freshly booted.
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Re: Windows 7
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I upgraded my HTPC from Vista Ultimate 32 to Win 7 Ultimate 64 recently. I have not seen any compelling reason in windows itself to upgrade, except for Windows Media Center. The version that comes with Win 7 is much improved if you use it to watch/record HDTV.
I don't have cable or any dish services, but I get excellent HDTV with a HDHomerun network tuner. The guide now works properly and displays all program information correctly for my 17 over the air channels. In my opinion Microsoft fixed what should have worked properly in Vista.
It is just like Microsoft to charge me for another operating system to fix what should have worked anyway. It is just like me to fall for this!
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It is just like Microsoft to charge me for another operating system to fix what should have worked anyway. Thats exactly the way I feel. They should be providing me with an upgrade as a matter of course, after all, they were the ones that messed up.
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One more here that has run Vista with no problems. Hopefully some of the improvements done on Win7 may make there way as service packs for those of us still running Vista.......I can always dream......
Jason
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I've been running Vista on three computers for awhile now, and it's never been a problem for me. Though some software availability for 64-bit has been....
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If you were a hold out XP user like I was, then it has been a very satisfying upgrade. I wanted the Vista interface when it came out but held off due to it's performance issues at the time.
For an XP user, it's a no brainer. You should upgrade. A Vista user, I could see as not being in such a hurry. Although, moving from 32 bit to 64 bit has already payed for itself with my latest CD rips going twice as fast, as per my post somewhere about dual-core multitasking on music rips and conversions.
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The faster ripping is a good point as I think I will be re-ripping my music once I get into my new house. One library in FLAC but ripped with EAC and one with i-tunes for my wife and son's i-pods. Storage is cheap and so is my time. On a side note one of my Hhard drives died in my NAS last week and I simply swapped in the new and it rebuilt from the second(I was ruinning the NAS mirrored), no hiccups at all, technology is great when it works 
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