16 or 32-bit version of XP?

[Tom Green]

I'm trying to download the patch to fix security problems
with DirectX which affects EVERYONE
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-030.asp),
but I wanted to know how to determine whether I'm running a
16-bit or a 32-bit version of XP. Thanks!

 

[Mike Mulligan]

The last 16 bit Windows was version 3.11. You have 32 bit software. The
patch you are describing is available to anyone from Windows Update.

Mike Mulligan

I'm trying to download the patch to fix security problems
with DirectX which affects EVERYONE
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security
/bulletin/MS03-030.asp),
but I wanted to know how to determine whether I'm running a
16-bit or a 32-bit version of XP. Thanks!

 

[Tim Slattery]

I'm trying to download the patch to fix security problems
with DirectX which affects EVERYONE
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-030.asp),
but I wanted to know how to determine whether I'm running a
16-bit or a 32-bit version of XP. Thanks!

There is no 16-bit version of XP. There is a 64-bit version, but if
you were running that, you wouldn't have to ask. You're running the
32-bit version.

 

[EGMcCann]

monitor/screen, click Properties then Settings. Look at
color quality.

That's color depth, not "16 or 32 bit XP." Used to also be called "Millions
of colors" and "True color" as I recall (not in XP though.)

XP itself is a 32-bit OS.

 

[Down Home]

Since it is a Direct-X issue, I think you may actually be wanting to know
which graphics setting are you running for your grahics card, 16 bit or 32
bit. Go to Start Menu, Settings, Control Panel, click Display and look on
the Settings tab. Look on the right and it will be under "Color Quality".


I'm trying to download the patch to fix security problems
with DirectX which affects EVERYONE
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security
/bulletin/MS03-030.asp),
but I wanted to know how to determine whether I'm running a
16-bit or a 32-bit version of XP. Thanks!

 

[CS]

I'm trying to download the patch to fix security problems
with DirectX which affects EVERYONE
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-030.asp),
but I wanted to know how to determine whether I'm running a
16-bit or a 32-bit version of XP. Thanks!

XP is 32 bit. The last version of Windows that was 16 bit I believe
was WFWG 3.11.

 

[Ken Blake]

XP can run at 16 or 32-bit. Rightclick middle of
monitor/screen, click Properties then Settings. Look at
color quality.

No, you're talking about color depth, an entirely different thing
from the question asked. Read any of the other answers for
correct information.

 

[PaulC]

No, that is horribly wrong. That is the colour depth, not the OS. The last
version of a 16-bit windows was Windows 3.11, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and
NT are all 32-bit. Windows XP is available in 32 and 64 bit. Although you
would know if you had 64 bit, because of two gaping holes, both in your
wallet. One for the 64 bit Windows XP, and for the special hardware
required to run it.

 

[PaulC]

That would be true, since the only 16 bit version of Windows was 3.11

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Actually many will argue that Win9x is 16-bit, too

Steve

 

[PaulC]

well that may be right, but I'm still sticking with "Windows 9x IS NOT 16
bit"

 

[Lorne Smith]

Win 9x has a 16 bit kernel and is running as a shell to a 16bit OS (DOS),
they are not "true" OS's in their own right. It does contain some 32bit
code IIRC, but it's kernel is 16bit. The first version of Windows to be
TRUE 32bit was NT...

FAT32 is merely the addressing architecture of the hard drive and has
nothing to do with the OS installed on it.

Lorne

 

[Ken Blake]

well that may be right, but I'm still sticking with "Windows 9x IS
NOT 16 bit"

It's neither all 16-bit, nor all 32-bit. It's actually a
combination of 16-bit and 32-bit code.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Did you bother to actually READ what I wrote?

*I* never said anything about it one way or the other - I only said
people would argue about it. That's what I was saying. Personally I
don't give a rip, I just think it's funny.

I wasn't acting "right" about anything except the fact that people woukd
argue about it and guess what?

~

Steve

 

[Test Man]

True, Windows 95 (and 98 and Me) contained quite a bit of 16-bit code and
Windows 3.11 contained some 32-bit code, however, most people within
Microsoft would agree that Windows 3.11 is a 16-bit OS and Windows 95 is a
32-bit OS, despite both containing a fair share of both 16-bit and 32-bit
code.