Hi Chris My other half has gone out to work, so I'll reply in her stead. I am surmising, as I said to Lynne, that the reason XP 64-bit didn't catch on was that at the time 64-bit machines were very very expensive. Indeed, when I bought my first AMD Athlon 64, it cost me nearly 400 Pounds just for the processor and another 50 for the necessary heat sink and fan. That was much later than the release of XP so as I said, my guess is that it was pure economics.
It wasn't really until that disaster, Vista was released that it became realistic to produce 64-bit operating systems. The availability of such machines is now far more widespread. Indeed, anybody who owns an Apple machine produced within the last 4 years or so has a 64-bit machine right away. Many other laptops are also using Xeon processors now which means, of course, that they too are capable of running 64-bit operating systems. I have an Asus NetBook here which is 64-bit although the manufacturers, I suspect because of the price, ship those machines with a 32-bit OS. Actually my Asus is broken and, for whatever reason, I can't get it to even show me the Rollback boot menu which is odd in itself because it was definitely installed. So how I'm going to recover that I'm not entirely sure. But that's another story. Gordon On 19 Aug 2011, at 09:05, chris hallsworth wrote: I think there is one, and I mean one, copy of XP X64 ever produced. I don't know why it was so unpopular and why it didn't do well in the markets but there you go. Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird On 19/08/2011 03:46, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello again > > Another Windows question. First of all, is it possible to obtain a Windows XP > 64-bit edition CD image from anywhere and, if so, do you need separate > product keys from the 32-bit version? If, of course, there's even such a > thing as a 64-bit version of XP. > > I have an official Windows 7 product key actually and I have an official > Windows 7 64-bit DVD image. But what I don't have is a way to create a > bootable DVD using it. Although my other half has just suggested something > which might work; so maybe I should go that route first. He's just come up > with a possible solution. Even so, is there a way with XP? > > Lynne > > _______________________________________________ > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since > the 12th of April 2010, at: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html
