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    window 32bit and 64bit?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jino215, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. jino215

    jino215 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i do not know much about OS.

    please help.

    When you talk about Window OS (XP or Vista),

    what is 32bit or 64bit?
    how does it different?
    how do you determine which version(?) you have installed?

    For example, i have window xp pro sp2....is this 32bit or 64bit?

    thank you for your help.
     
    jino215, Jul 17, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    32bit and 64bit are just the sizes of data chunks that the processor processes data in, and addresses memory in, etc. 64bit allows you to use much more memory than 32bit does, and is faster sometimes because the 64bit x86 instruction set has a number of optimizations that have been a long time in coming.

    If you have XP Pro installed, it's probably 32bit. It's hard to find XP Pro 64bit, especially accidentally. If you really want to know, see if you have both a "Program Files" and a "Program Files (X86)" on your root drive, you have the 64bit version of XP.
     
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    PhoenixFx, Jul 17, 2007
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