{"id":15589,"date":"2020-03-05T02:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T02:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15589"},"modified":"2020-03-05T02:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T02:16:05","slug":"check-if-program-is-32-bit-or-64-bit-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/check-if-program-is-32-bit-or-64-bit-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Check if a Program is 32-bit or 64-bit on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to determine if an .exe file is 32-bit or 64-bit? If you have Windows 10 64-bit installed, you can run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps. However, you can run only 32-bit programs on Windows 10 32-bit installation. Here are a couple of ways to find out if a program is 32-bit or 64-bit on Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Check if a Program is 32-bit or 64-bit Using Task Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Launch the target program you want to check if it’s 32-bit or 64-bit, then open Task Manager<\/a> and go to the Details<\/strong> tab. Right-click on a column header and choose Select columns<\/strong>.\n

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  2. Check the Platform<\/strong> box, and click OK<\/strong>.\n

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  3. Under the Platform column, you can easily see if a particular program on you system is 32-bit or 64-bit.\n

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    Method 2: Check if a Program is 32-bit or 64-bit via Compatibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Find the launcher file (*.exe) of a program whose architecture you want to find out, then right-click on it and select Properties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    2. Go to the Compatibility tab, check the “Run this program in compatibility mode for<\/strong>” option and click the drop-down list. If your list starts with “Windows Vista<\/strong>“, then your program is 64-bit. If the list starts with “Windows 95<\/strong>” then your app is 32 bit.\n

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      Method 3: Check if a Program is 32-bit or 64-bit Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. To get started, download the free command-line utility called SigCheck from Microsoft Sysinternals<\/a>. The download is a 799 KB ZIP file. After extracting, go to the extracted folder and open an elevated Command Prompt window<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      2. Type the following command and hit Enter. Remember to specify the full path to your target executable file.
        \nsigcheck.exe \"full-path-to-EXE\"<\/code><\/li>\n
      3. At the right end of the output, a line called “MachineType<\/strong>” will tell you if the EXE is 32-bit or 64-bit.\n

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        That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        How to determine if an .exe file is 32-bit or 64-bit? If you have Windows 10 64-bit installed, you can run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps. However, you can run only 32-bit programs on Windows 10 32-bit installation. Here are a couple of ways to find out if a program is 32-bit or 64-bit on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4426,4425,4424],"class_list":["post-15589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-check-if-app-is-32-bit-or-64-bit","tag-check-if-executable-is-32-bit-or-64-bit","tag-tell-if-a-program-is-64-bit-or-32-bit-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15608,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions\/15608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}