Re: How to tell if you are on a 64 bit windows

Subject: Re: How to tell if you are on a 64 bit windows
From: Hodgins Family <ehodgins -at- telusplanet -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:03 -0600

On Thu, 2007-24-05 at 08:00 -0700, John Posada wrote:
> 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.
>

This link *might* help?
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/25857/25857.html?Ad=1

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