[Ham-Computers] Vista Home Premium 32 bit vs. 64 bit?

[Philip (KO6BB)]

Hi,
I have an Acer 6930 laptop I bought awhile back.  It has a 320GB HD and 3GB 
of ram, 2.2GHz Intel Dua Core processor.  It came with the 32 bit Vista Home 
Premium OS.

I liked it well enough that for Christmas I gave my wife the same machine, 
except that it has a 250GB HD and 4GB of ram (she was running an antique 
600MHz P3 and Win98).  Except for the HD and RAM, her machine has all the 
same peripherals (sound card, web camera etc) as mine.  Her machine came 
with the Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS though, along with all the same 
"extra" software that mine came with.

QUESTIONS:
1.  Her machine seems to boot and possible run user programs little faster 
than mine does.  Is that due to the 64 bit OS?

2.  Can I, and would it be of any advantage, for me to use the "restore 
DVD's" that I created for her machine to install the 64 bit OS on my 
machine? (As per the owners manual, the first thing I did after getting both 
machines is to create the DVD restore disks).  I suppose that if it didn't 
work, I could always use the "hidden partition" or the restore disks I 
created to return to the original configuration.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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