How to tell if you are on a 64 bit windows

Subject: How to tell if you are on a 64 bit windows
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:00:24 -0700 (PDT)

Hi, guys...the application I'm documenting only runs on 64 bit OSs. I
have access to a 64 bit Linux and Solaris OS, so I can verify how to
tell a user in a document how to check if their system is 64 bit from
a command line.

BTW...The commands I'm using to check Linux is uname -a and to check
Solaris is isainfo -v.

However, I don't have access to a 64 bit Windows OS, so I cannot
determine this first hand.

My question...if you are writing an installation guide and want to
include a line on how to check if their Windows OS is 64 bit or 32
bit, what would you say? BTW...it doesn't have to be determined
programmaticaly.

Thanks

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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