Tuesday, January 7, 2014

How to find out if the version of windows that is installed is 32 bit or 64 bit

For some reason, I can't get computer properties to come up on the remote machine, and I needed to install something. TIL that the following will get the windows architecture from the DOS command line:

wmic os get osarchitecture

source:

http://superuser.com/questions/321988/how-do-i-determine-if-my-windows-is-32-bit-or-64-bit-using-a-command

A lot of online answers to this question involved finding the windows version that is running. Not too helpful since I probably would have to google that number to find out if it's 64 or 32 bit. However I learned that there's a DOS command "winver" that reports this, but furthermore I learned that just opening a DOS window causes the windows version to be printed on the first line of the window.

source:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080804184454AAIWIuQ