I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
32 bit.

Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.

Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?

-hth-
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/xp64.php

"newb-in-need" wrote:

> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> 32 bit.
>
> Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
>
> Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?

newb-in-need wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> 32 bit.
>
> Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
>
> Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?

Media Center is a super-set of XP Pro, which is why dxdiag shows XP Pro.
No, XP Pro comes in 32-bit flavors too. You have a 32-bit operating system.


Malke
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Not by default, mine is default 32 bit

"newb-in-need" wrote:

> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> 32 bit.
>
> Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
>
> Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?

Hold down the left Windows key and press Pause/Break. You should see the
System properities page and it will say on it the edition of Windows. If it
says XP Pro SP2 you have the 32-bit version. The 64-bit version says "x64
Edition."

"newb-in-need" <newb-in-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:536A3957-BDF2-422C-9964-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system
> i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My
> computer>Properties
> and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center
> is
> 32 bit.
>
> Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and
> for
> some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i
> thought.
>
> Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?

"Malke" wrote:

> newb-in-need wrote:
> > I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> > had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> > and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> > Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> > 32 bit.
> >
> > Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> > some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
> >
> > Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?
>
> Media Center is a super-set of XP Pro, which is why dxdiag shows XP Pro.
> No, XP Pro comes in 32-bit flavors too. You have a 32-bit operating system.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

ah! ok, thank you all so much

"Malke" wrote:

> newb-in-need wrote:
> > I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> > had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> > and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> > Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> > 32 bit.
> >
> > Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> > some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
> >
> > Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?
>
> Media Center is a super-set of XP Pro, which is why dxdiag shows XP Pro.
> No, XP Pro comes in 32-bit flavors too. You have a 32-bit operating system.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

newb-in-need wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties
> and it says I'm running Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2.
> Couldnt find anywhere about the bit though, but i read that Media Center is
> 32 bit.
>


If you have to ask, you're almost certainly running the 32-bit
version of WinXP. I'm not trying to be facetious; I'm sure you'd have
noticed paying several thousand dollars more for the Itanium or Itanium
II CPU required to run the original 64-bit version of WinXP Pro, or
whether or not you purchased a computer with an AMD Athlon64 or Intel
EM64T CPU.

There are, of course, no 64-bit versions of WinXP Home, WinXP
TabletPC, or WinXP MCE. Also, because WinXPx64 is available only as an
OEM license, it doesn't come in a box.

Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Overview
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/overview.asp

To verify for yourself, Click Start > Run, type in "Winver" and
press <Enter>. If the resulting dialog box does not _explicitly_ state
that you have "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" or "Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition," then you have a 32-bit OS.


> Well anyway i decided to see if running a dxdiag would help me more and for
> some reason it says my OS is Windows XP Professional which is 64bit i thought.
>
> Can anyone help solve this crazy thing?


What your seeing is perfectly normal. WinXP Media Center Edition is a
_superset_ (iow, it does _everything_ WinXP Pro can do (except join a
domain), plus contains additional multi-media features) of WinXP Pro.


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>
> I'm having a bit of a problem, i was trying to figure out which bit system i
> had, a 32 or 64 bit for my Windoes XP. Well i went to My computer>Properties

You have 32 bit Windows.

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