Noel, I took the plunge! Thank you so much!!!

JEL, Thank you too! I think it should work out fine for me. There's only a couple of plugins that I still use that are 32 only. It dawned on me that the ones I use most often are all optional 32/64. And then there's a couple of 64 only ones - I think they're both NI - not sure right now.

I've really pared down and am not reinstalling all the ones I had that I rarely if ever used and don't need.

I think in the future 32bit will be phased out by the plugin developers so it's probably not if but when anyway so here's hoping all goes well.