First Experiences with Vista 64

I am running Vista Ultimate 32 (x86) and 64 (x64) bit. The 64 bit version is faster because it allows some programs to run in 64 bit mode and it uses all of my installed memory. Vista 32 is limited to 3GB of memory.

Vista 64 comes with a 32 and 64 bit version of Internet Explorer 8.0. The 64 bit version is very fast but will not work with Adober Flash.

Programs installed on Vista 64 are put into c:\Program Files if they run in x64 mode. The 32 bit applications are put into c:\Program Files (x86). A programmer should check which folder his application is loaded to.

Visual Studio 2008 users who embed Access databases in their application without changing the default compile will get an error message on Vista 64.



There is no 64 bit version of the Jet.OLEDB.4.0 data provider. You need to compile the program in x86 mode as shown below.