This coming week our school’s teacher laptops will be upgraded from Windows 7 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit. We’re doing this in order to take advantage of our recent laptop memory upgrades from 2GB to 4GB. Sadly, 32-bit Windows can address a total of 4GB memory, but some of that is reserved for Video devices and other stuff. So you’re left with about 3.1 GB usable memory.
Thank you to our new Manager of Information Technology and our school technician for helping us move to 64-bit Windows. So far we’ve installed it on 2 teacher laptops and our new library desktop, and have been using it for two weeks. So far so good – no problems to report. Just a few items to tweak on the image that will be used for the other 20 teacher laptops, and I think the image is ready to go.
I have hosted one workshop for teachers on “how to backup and restore your files” before the laptops get wiped clean. Another workshop Monday, the re-imaging begins on Tuesday, then I will offer help again to restore personal files after the laptops are ready.
Thought I would share the notes I made for teachers on how to backup and restore personal files … documents, pictures, video, music, iTunes… See attachment! Backup Laptop and Restore
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