¿does it make sense?

[fe7felix]

hey bthanks for replies.
bob, your machine is other dimension, dont compare it with computers.. makes me sad.
i looked at some sites, they all said tht the processor i have runs 64b. loose the fn keys doesnt matter if the system runs stable and fast. the bad thing is back up all stuff and load the new os (could i copy things on a particion forex D: or do i have to format the entire hd?)loose all progs isnt problem neither, i just have a lot of lil freewaretools.
would run a win 7 32 more effecient on my laptop than 64 version?
would any of them run more effecient than my vista homepremium??

[MisterPWN]

Windows 7 in general uses less resources than Vista, and is an all around more efficient OS. It would be an upgrade to to install Win7 32 bit, you won't lose any performance, your total amount of ram will be less than if you went 64 bit though. You should be able to keep all of your function keys and everything else should run smoothly (at least as good as Vista if not better). You might research the laptop/motherboard and see if they have drivers for Windows 7 to begin with, otherwise this is all kind of moot. I had forgot about laptops and there sketchy support for 64bit, thanks for bringing that up tinybob.

It might be possible to create another partition and load your files onto that as a backup, then just reformat the OS partition, but I wouldn't recommend doing it that way. If you have an external hard drive, or large enough flash drive that you can transfer them to, then completely wipe the laptops hard drive, that is how I would do it.

[tinybobdfa]

It would be a good idea to get yourself a small external harddrive about 200gig they are nice and cheap nowa days. (about £25-40 here in UK)
Or if money is not a problem go my route........
I brought a second PC tower case with a large power supply.
I have an external SATA conection that I set up to be able to run up to a maximum of 8 Harddrives, right now I have 4 1.5Tb HD's inside my extra case.
You may wonder why?
Well I write dance/trance music I have just over 2Tb of samples for my music proggys!!!!
and to top it all of I have about 1tb worth of BF2 stuff including mods and maps.
Keep everything including all your BF2 stuff in a nice safe place.
Then when ever you need to re-install you have it all in a nice handy location.
Also you can put all the utils you need for a full install in this HD making it nice and easy.
I have been looking at you CPU and yes it would be happier in 64bit mode but you motherboard would not, as I said before your problems would start when looking for drivers.
Laptops are notoriously bad when it comes to 64bit os.