# Can Vista 64 "talk to" Vista 32?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-vista-64-talk-to-vista-32/398159 "2007-03-30T21:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-vista-64-talk-to-vista-32/398159/1 "2007-03-30T21:03:42Z")

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I’m building a media center PC for the living room, mostly so that I don’t have to deal with the two tv tuners and 2 hard drives on my main gaming machine and then there’s loosing tv signal every time I have to restart the main PC.

I decided that for my main gaming PC I’m going to go with the 64 bit version of vista ultimate since all my drivers are available for 64 bit and all the games I play appear to work on it fine. I’d rather install Vista 32bit ultimate on my media center PC for compatibility’s sake though, specially with the TV tuners and some vista media center plugins I’ve been using.

How will this difference affect my ability to access the drives/features of my media center PC? Will I be able to log on to the media center PC using remote desktop from my 64 bit main vista machine? Will I have problems accessing the media PC’s drives through the network? Or will this difference be completely transparent?

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-vista-64-talk-to-vista-32/398159/2 "2007-03-30T22:03:42Z")

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The 64-bit vs. 32-bit discrepancy won’t be a problem. The network protocols are independent of the operating system and processor of each computer.

That’s not to say that you won’t have any problems. It is a new version of Windows, after all.