How to know what types of windows xp you're using.

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I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two
kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for
windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using
windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am
i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me
please?
 
I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two
kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for
windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using
windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am
i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me
please?
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Most likely you have the regular 32 bit XP, and not the 64 bit.
 
Syah said:
I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and
there two kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of
update; one for windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I
am currently using windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of
windows xp am i using. Am i using the windows xp or the windows xp
professional x64? Can you help me please?
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Right Click on "My Computer" look on the general tab. Will say Windows XP
Professional.. or home ed and what service pak its using.
 
What is the differences between Windows Xp Professional 32bit and the Windows
Xp Professional 64bit? How can i spot the diffenrence?

Thanks!
 
I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there
two
kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for
windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using
windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using.
Am
i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me
please?
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If you were using the 64bit you'd know it. So most certainly you're using
the 32bit version.
 
Syah said:
What is the differences between Windows Xp Professional 32bit and the Windows
Xp Professional 64bit? How can i spot the diffenrence?
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The 64-bit version runs on and takes advantage of 64-bit hardware. If
you don't know whether you have 64-bit hardware, odds are extremely
high that you're using a 32-bit machine. A 32-bit machine cannot run
64-bit software, including 64-bit XP.
 
I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two
kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for
windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using
windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am
i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me
please?
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The 64-bit version requires a 64-bit CPU. The 32-bit version can run
on either a 32-bit CPU or a 64-bit CPU. Until recently, there were
only 32-bit CPUs available, but 64-bit ones are becoming more common.

As to which you have, almost certainly it's 32-bit Windows. Your
question is a fairly common one, and I've never seen anyone who had to
ask be running the 64-bit version (which is much less common). If you
were running 64-bit Windows, almost certainly you'd know it.

But to be sure, right-click on My Computer and choose Properties. If
yours is the 64-bit version, it will say so there.
 
Syah said:
I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two
kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for
windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using
windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am
i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me
please?
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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.



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Press Winkey+Pause, look on System properties below Registered to. If
the ?s in the number #####-???-#######-##### are OEM then it's OEM.
 
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