17 Oct
2025
17 Oct
'25
7:34 a.m.
Is there ANY reason why windows N can't work with
legacy drivers from
Windows N-1?
For what it's worth, Windows 10 runs fine on an IBM Thinkpad X61 in 64
bit mode with no issues. 2007 system means it's running fine 19 years
later. I should fire it up and upgrade to Windows 11.....
How much disk space would it take for Windows 11 to
have additional code
code to let it use Windows XP, Win95, etc. drivers? (YES, but even if
you can not get use of this week's Smell-O-Vision)
The problem there is that Windows 11 just doesn't have 32 bit mode. I
can kind of understand this, unless you're using weird memory mapping
systems like PAE you're getting restricted with a 4gb max memory space.
Still that leaves systems from 2006 onward to work fine in 64 bit mode,
the question is does Windows 11 support Windows 7 64 bit drivers?
Chris