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Apr

Reasons to avoid Windows 7 32-bit

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM, Windows

There is a great new post over here (http://adventuresinosd.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-10-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7-32.html) at Adventures in OSD on the reasons to avoid the 32-bit version of Windows 7 in the enterprise. I strongly agree with all of his points and made one conclusion – if you are going to run a 32-bit OS then stick with Windows XP 32-bit, [...]

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27

Mar

Simple query to find if processor is 64 bit capable

Posted by danovich  Published in Tools, Windows

I’ve often used a very simple query to find if a processor is 64 bit capable. Open up a command prompt and enter the following: wmic cpu get datawidth I doesn’t matter the version of the Operating System you are running, this WMI query will return the actually hardware processor capability. If it returns a [...]

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Tags: 32, 32 bit, 64, 64-bit, datawidth, processor, query, WMI, wmic

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