XP Home SP2 - 32 or 64 system?

[Umma Gumma]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I look?

 

[Guest]

go to Help.About in Explorer. At the top of the About box, it will say
"Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" if you have it.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I
look?

Do you mean whether or not your system can run a 64-bit operating system or
whether or not your system is running a 64-bit operating system?

IF you meant the operating system and not if the hardware is capable of
more: since you have Windows XP home - you can stop now... You are running
a 32-bit operating system.

IF you meant to ask if the hardware was capable of more - you'd have to give
us system specs.

 

[glee]

Click Start> My Computer, then click the Help menu> About Windows.
In the "About" box, it will say "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" if that is what you
have.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I look?

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.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I look?

You have a 32 bit copy of Windows.

Windows XP Home comes only in 32 bit.

XP PRO 64-bit requires a conscious and somewhat complex set of decisions on
your part. You'd know, and you'd have paid extra.

Your system may be capable of running 64-bit code, but is running a 32-bit
OS.

HTH
-pk

 

[Umma Gumma]

It's a 2.2Ghz HP Pavilion with .5GIG or RAM, a 80GIG HDD partitioned into a
factory C (NTFS) and D (FAT32).

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I
look?

Do you mean whether or not your system can run a 64-bit operating
system or whether or not your system is running a 64-bit operating
system?
IF you meant the operating system and not if the hardware is
capable of more: since you have Windows XP home - you can stop
now... You are running a 32-bit operating system.

IF you meant to ask if the hardware was capable of more - you'd
have to give us system specs.

It's a 2.2Ghz HP Pavilion with .5GIG or RAM, a 80GIG HDD
partitioned into a factory C (NTFS) and D (FAT32).

So you wondered if it was 64-bit capable - not if you were currently running
a 32 or 64-bit Operating System then?
(Repeating myself - you stated in the subject XP Home Edition - you are
currently running a 32-bit operating system.)

Your machine is *not* 64-bit capable.

 

[Umma Gumma]

Thank you Shenan.

So you wondered if it was 64-bit capable - not if you were currently
running a 32 or 64-bit Operating System then?
(Repeating myself - you stated in the subject XP Home Edition - you are
currently running a 32-bit operating system.)

Your machine is *not* 64-bit capable.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

How can tell whether I have a 32 or a 64 bit system? Where do I look?

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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Bruce Chambers

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