Well, do us a favor and tell us the brands of your old wireless card with the crummy driver & the new card that you couldn't get to work well so we'll all know to avoid those like the plague.

I guess you'll be avoiding PCI wireless cards in Windows 7 64 bit altogether then (which is actually a good idea, see below). Linksys and Netgear don't seem to be in the 64-bit driver business as far as I can tell. The one that worked in Windows 7 64-bit was this one by Encore.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16833180052

It worked well for a while, but keep in mind my computer and my wireless router are in diagonally opposite corners of a two story house and it was blocked by both the kids computer as well as walls and ceilings. This had been an occasional issue in the 32 bit world as well. Most of the time it worked well enough, then it stopped. Maybe one more neighbor added a wi-fi router and the interference pushed me over the edge.

Instead of wireless PCI cards, what I recommend for desktop or stationary computers and am using today is powerline networking. I got a refurbished Linksys powerline adapter kit model PLK300-RM, which I paid about  $92 shipped. The technology has gotten very reliable and inexpensive these days, and it appears as ethernet to the computer so you don't have to worry about drivers. Netgear makes them too.

For laptops, I have no idea.

Odd, I have a PCI wireless card working just fine in one of my Win7 x64 systems...

- Oshyan

Which one?

Ralink and Edimax seem to be the same company - I have bought a number of Edimax wireless products (cheap and cheerful and seem to work well) and they all appear as Ralink devices.

January  year (09) I have a computer 64 BIT (TOP OF THE LINE ? )
nothing work. Have to go back to to 32.
Pain in the ass to be in the frontline.

You may have had trouble in 2009, but running a 64-bit OS is hardly being on the 'front line' anymore. Every computer you can buy at the Big Box stores come with Win7 x64 anymore.

If, however, you are building your computer yourself a little research before buying your components will yield a happy experience with Windows 7 x64.

My only aggravation is my old CRT monitor doesn't have a 64-bit driver for it. 

Hi Masubi,
Why don't you list a number of "must have" programs you want to run on a 64 bit system so members already on 64 machines can give you a definite aa'yes" or "no"

Well right now I'm using about 80% of my RAM all the time, and I've got more than 3gb already... so yeah I would like to upgrade:)
Software that I can't live without:
Find and run robot
Copernic summarizer
www.copernic.com (check the trial)
Copernic agent
www.copernic.com
You can actually get it for free (from the creator) here
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/bundle/bundle-agent.html
I don't use desktop search though since windows search is now so well implemented
Anki
http://ichi2.net/anki/
Bs Player
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Gomplayer
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/
An archiver preferably powerarchiver but winrar and winzip are okay to, even stuffit is okay.
Doublekiller
http://www.bigbangenterprises.com/en/doublekiller/
Scanitto (actually blindscan because I use a scanner from a different computer in my network:), but it comes bundled with it)
http://www.masterslabs.com/en/scanitto.html
Blindscanner
http://www.masterslabs.com/en/blindscanner.html
Total Uninstall
http://www.martau.com/
Microsoft word:)
Opera
Firefox (or to be  more precise Pale moon) www.palemoon.org
Nuance omnipage or Finereader or any other good ocr software because I need it for work.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Editpad or ultraedit or something like that
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
ESET smart security 4
http://www.eset.com/
Chameleon startup manager
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/windows-startup-manager/
evernote
www.evernote.com
Miranda
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Flux
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
Firebird 2.0

Actually its not firebird but a software that I need for work, it's required for the job I'm doing now.
You can just check if it will run and startup.
http://www.norcom.com.pl/download/nfz/Instaluj_GlobalZPO_Demo_1_6_7_0_z_Danymi.exe
It's for creating documents for the polish public health care fund
The licence for it was pretty expensive and I would be sad loosing it.
Minilyrics
http://www.crintsoft.com/
Point motivator, ProcessTammer, instant boss,
www.donationcoder.com
A VNC client, any one will do.
xyplorer or something like that
http://www.xyplorer.com/
Proto
http://miechu.pl/proto/
Everything
http://www.voidtools.com/
comicrack
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/

Oh yeah and nero and website watcher, ad muncher, direct folders and sandboxie

I also wanted to try some other desktop search software, Archivarius and dtsearch.


And I also like to try out all the newest software, but I don't think this will really be a problem.

Tekzel, while you can only address 4GB on a 32bit system, we've had PAE since the ppro, allowing the use of 64GB on a 32bit system. Yeah, an app can only see 4GB, but those 4GB can be mapped to any part of the physical memory space... which brings us back to the "devices eating up memory" - this is easily solvable by remapping memory, but MS doesn't support that on 32bit client versions of Windows. Pre-SP1, XP actually did support it (but still - arbitrarily - limited itself to support only 4GB of physical memory). With SP1, the system was changed to support only the lower 4GB of physical memory address space, because of fscktarded driver developers thinking "I'm writing a 32bit driver, I only need to look at the lower 32bit of the PHYSICAL_ADDRESSes".

I also assume that if off-the-shelf computers actually work with an operating system it didn't ship with, it's merely coincidental.

I have to give respect to Dell in that regard. I had a Dell XPS Gen 4 and a Dell 8400 system over here & they both came with Windows XP. When the time came I upgraded them both to Vista with no problems. Later, when the time came again I upgraded them both to Windows 7 with no problems.

There were no weird drivers in either PC, either. Every piece of hardware could be upgraded by using the drivers off of the component manufacturer's web site.