I have a spare copy of Vista 64 Ultimate, Vista 32, and XP (32). I use Vista64 on my current PC because it's my clear favourite, but I am making an HTPC which will have 4gig of RAM but not especially great components in it.
All it will be for, is playing MP3's, Blue Ray disks, dvd's, recorded video media, and surfing the web. Not really any games. So I would really like something that has minimum fuss, good compatibility with stuff, and is likely to run the quickest at loading up web pages and stuff.
I would just use XP because that is pretty trusty, but I would prefer Vista because I'm used to it now and I think that would look better on a big screen. But I don't know if I would be better using 32 or 64? Or would XP just be better for a low spec HTPC?
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