For reasons unknown to us Paul Hayton said thus to mark lewis:   
      
    ml> as long as your Win7 can run DOS programs, it should be   
    ml> fine... the underlying disk format doesn't come into play...   
    ml> that's all transparent to most programs... just don't try to   
    ml> use long file names... 8.3 is still the restriction ;)   
      
    PH> I figured I keep Win7 as 32bit to be on the safe side as well.   
      
    FWIW Paul, I run FastEcho here under windows 7 32 bit with no problems at   
   all.  It's been rock solid for me.   
      
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