Alejandro Benitez writes: > I have a 32 bit cygwin installation of 8 years of age in an amd64 PC > with 2 GB of RAM with Windows 10. So far it's been so good. I never > had the need to use a 64 bit Windows, but recently 64 bit has become > mainstream and I also started having low memory issues, so I upgraded > to 4 GB of RAM. The thing is 32 bit Windows has issues with the whole > 4 GB of RAM therefore I have quite less available, so I decided I will > be switching to 64 bit Windows 10 via a clean install (yuk!) when I am > able.
Well, for an installation that old it would probably be quite helpful if you did a clean fresh install. A 32bit Windows can deal just fine with 4GB of memory (not so much with larger memory), you can make about 3GB of that available to user processes with a boot option (at the expense of memory reserved for the kernel space). > I'll be following the steps outlined in this post or a similar one: > > https://www.howtogeek.com/228042/how-to-switch-from-32-bit-windows-10-to-64-bit-windows-10/ > > It's somehow clear I thankfully won't need to upgrade to cygwin64 > until later, I mean it seems I'll be able to still use my 32 bit > cygwin after I upgrade to 64 bit Windows 10, I just don't know what > I'll need to tweak / migrate so that the new Windows installation > installed on top of the same drive that currently holds the 32 bit > cygwin knows it's there. I'm betting some registry entries and > environment variables. Does anyone know these tweaks for certain? I > need cygwin to be fully functional, I mean setup.exe needs to be able > to install packages, otherwise it won't be of much use. You can keep using a 32bit Cygwin on any Windows 64bit desktop version in existence so far, they all come with the WoW64 subsystem that is necessary to run 32bit Windows applications. > I might also be wrong and need to install cygwin64 as I upgrade > Windows. Fingers are crossed. However, I'd still recommend you make the switch to a 64bit Cygwin if you have the option. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
