Window XP home edition SP2

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How can I find out that my Window XP home edition SP2, Ver. 5.1 is a 32 or 64
bits OS?
 
How can I find out that my Window XP home edition SP2, Ver. 5.1 is a 32 or 64
bits OS?
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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.
 
Seyed said:
How can I find out that my Window XP home edition SP2, Ver. 5.1 is a 32 or 64
bits OS?
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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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Ken Blake said:
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.
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Thank you Ken and Bruce. You were both right. Hiether my XP home nor my XP
Pro are 64 bits. Thx
 
Seyed said:
How can I find out that my Window XP home edition SP2, Ver. 5.1 is
a 32 or 64 bits OS?
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

Not to mention that Windows XP Home Edition only *comes* in 32bit. ;-)
 
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