Peripherals....
 

Quick possibly stupid question....
I have serviceable printers a d a scanner originzlly purchased to work with Windows XP and Vista 32 biit computers. Will they work with 64 bitcomputers using W7....
Thanks

Maybe, maybe not. Google is your friend.

For me, I just plugged them in and found out that they all worked. Turns out that they were all less than 5 years old.

Not sure about the printers - you may be lucky or not. For the scanners, as a satisfied customer I can recommend Vuescan, which covers a lot of scanners on current operating systems (and in the case of my Epson much better than the original drivers). See if your scanner is here :

Supported Scanners | VueScan

Personally I've found W7 very amenable. Plug the printer in; windoze says err wait a minute, I'll see if I can do anything... installing drivers... good to go.
It does depend how old your printer(s) are, but I haven't had a failure yet (6 printers so far). Like Deltic, however, I've found Vuescan v. useful.

Thanks for the help guys. Will see what happens!
Pp

My older but wi-fi enabled printer (Canon) did not like my 64 bit Win 7, and its combination with a BT 3 wifi unit, but it worked when I used a cable. As jim the rev says, it takes a few minutes, (assuming pc is connected to net).

I have some old Canon scanners which would work with Win 7 32 bit, but not with 64 bit. Canon advised that they did not intend to provide new drivers for them. However, I installed VirtualBox and then created a Win XP virtual machine which the scanners would talk to. The scans were then saved to a directory which was shared with the Win 7 host system.