Xionor

Whenever I download an installation .exe it gets corrupted. I've formatted my HDD yesterday so it can't be a virus.My RAM is also brand new... Some files dont get corrupted, but 100% of the NSIS installers are always bugged. This has happened to me before, but it somehow just disappeared. Does anyone know what may be causing this? My Motherboard is Asus A8N-E and I think it had quite a lot of in-built Anti-Virus stuff. Maybe it's going overly invasive and corrupting my stuff? EDIT: I just removed the nForce firewalls , etc, and to my surprise the download was flawless....Stupid firewalls...who needs them....

Actually, I do have a lot of Windows experience. My first Windows was the 3.11(!).After that, as time came by, I moved on to 95. Then I switched to 98 , later on to ME. Now I've been going on XP for about 3-4 years with no service packs or anything(At least on my computer, they just slowed things down a lot and made windows a lot heavier.) But I was just completely ignorant of x64, so better be safe now than sorry later.

Thanks for all the input! P.S. Sorry for the tag thingie - I thought the [Question] thing described what the "?" was...*cough* ... No I'm not a blonde female...

Does this mean x32 applications won't work as well, or even at all, under XP x64?

Are there special drivers for x64 or do the normal XP drivers work with them too? Also, aren't the x64 default drivers any good? Currently i'm using XP Pro's default sound drivers, which are infact better than my manufacturer's ones since they give a lot less problems.

I'm about to buy a new CPU - Athlon64. So I was wondering wether it was better for me to get Windows x64 - being a 64-bit edition and all,supposedly work better with my new CPU...or should I stick to the good old XP Home/Professional editions? I really don't know what the benefits from x64 are at all...infact I know extremely little about it so any input would be kindly appreciated. Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on. --Sonic