operating system info

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Hello,

I have Windows XP Home edition on my computer and I want to know if it runs
on 32 bit platform or 64 bit platform. Where do I get that info ?
Thank you.
 
Windows XP Home Edition is only available as a 32-bit
operating system. Therefore, you are running a 32-bit
version of Windows XP if you have Windows XP Home
Edition installed.

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| Hello,
|
| I have Windows XP Home edition on my computer and I want to know if it runs
| on 32 bit platform or 64 bit platform. Where do I get that info ?
| Thank you.
 
Incabyt said:
I have Windows XP Home edition on my computer and I want to know if
it runs on 32 bit platform or 64 bit platform. Where do I get that
info ?
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It will run on either hardware platform. However it itself will run only as
a 32-bit operating system, even if running on 64-bit hardware.
 
Incabyt said:
Hello,

I have Windows XP Home edition on my computer and I want to know if it runs
on 32 bit platform or 64 bit platform. Where do I get that info ?
Thank you.
Click to expand...


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 64-bit version of WinXP Pro, or whether or
not you purchased a computer with an AMD64 CPU. There are, of course,
no 64-bit versions of WinXP Home, WinXP TabletPC, or WinXP MCE.

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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