Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! >> 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,

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 13.06.2018 um 01:30 schrieb Alejandro Benitez: It's somehow clear I thankfully won't need to upgrade to cygwin64 until later, While you don't need to do it, you'll have to re-install Cygwin anyway, and frankly, installing 32-bit Cygwin from scratch, on a 64-bit Windows machine, just

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread Achim Gratz
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

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread Sam Habiel
Thank you Andrey. I use default settings on Gmail--that's the problem mainly. --Sam On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sam Habiel! > >> I use Cygwin 32-bit all the time on Windows 10 x64. > > 1. This is not a public census, mind you. > 2. No top-posting in this

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sam Habiel! > I use Cygwin 32-bit all the time on Windows 10 x64. 1. This is not a public census, mind you. 2. No top-posting in this mailing list. 3. Please cut your quotes to the necessary part, and teach your mail agent to not quote raw email addresses. Do not feed the spambots.

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Alejandro Benitez! > 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

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-12 Thread Sam Habiel
I use Cygwin 32-bit all the time on Windows 10 x64. --Sam On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:31 PM Alejandro Benitez < benitezalejandroe...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 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

Windows upgrade

2018-06-12 Thread Alejandro Benitez
Hi, 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