Not sure if your installed version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? One quick way to tell is by looking at information about your operating system installation in Control Panel.

One of the common choices today is whether to run a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system on desktop machines. Since 32-bit operating systems have been in production for many years, 32-bit still seems ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in April, but a simple registry hack lets users continue to get security updates. The hack, as reported by ZDNet, fools Microsoft into thinking the system ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows.

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

The transition from 8-bit computing to 16-bit required a reinvention of the operating system, and even moving to 32-bit ten years later was still a bit messy.

For instance, if you'd like to run Windows XP on your Windows 7 host system, you could create an XP virtual machine that runs XP inside a window you can view in Windows 7.

This HEXUS.help guide explains the essentials required to run a 64-bit operating system and native 64-bit applications on a modern 64-bit capable PC system.