Last night I did it. I took the plunge. I formatted and installed 64-bit Windows 7 Release Candadite. The experience, thus far, has been fairly painless. The installer was the simpliest installer for Windows I’ve used to date (and the prettiest).

Once in Windows I began the search for drivers to make everything work. Windows 7 automatically showed me a driver download from nVidia for my geForce 275 GTX, but I opted to visit the eVGA site instead, and sure enough they have a Windows 7 driver.

From here I payed a visit to the Creative Labs site for my sound device. Again I was fortunate to discover that my Sound Blaster X-Fi Gamer card has beta Windows 7 driver support. After a reboot everything played nice and clear.

Very quickly I proceeded to download Firefox so that I didn’t have to use IE anymore. I must note here that I do wish that Firefox had a 64-bit version to take full advantage of my hardware and newest OS, but I can live with the smaller 32-bits. :)

All while doing these tasks I also began the LONG update of Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. The game install is big enough, but the update currently sits at 4,000 plus files. That took a few hours to finish.

Now I am in the process of restoring backups from my Mozy Home account to get back my email, code, and documents.