How to know what types of windows xp you're using.
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From: Mina Nazieh Mina on 25 Mar 2010 07:16 how can i know my operating system xp is oem or open licence on window "Bruce Chambers" wrote: > Syah wrote: > > I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two > > kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for > > windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using > > windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am > > i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me > > please? > > > If you have to ask, you're almost certainly running the 32-bit > version of WinXP. I'm not trying to be facetious; I'm sure you'd have > noticed paying several thousand dollars more for the Itanium or Itanium > II CPU required to run the original 64-bit version of WinXP Pro, or > whether or not you purchased a computer with an AMD Athlon64 or Intel > EM64T CPU. There are, of course, no 64-bit versions of WinXP Home, WinXP > TabletPC, or WinXP MCE. Also, because WinXPx64 is available only as an > OEM license, it doesn't come in a box. > > Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Overview > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/overview.asp > > To verify for yourself, Click Start > Run, type in "Winver" and > press <Enter>. If the resulting dialog box does not _explicitly_ state > that you have "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" or "Windows XP Professional > x64 Edition," then you have a 32-bit OS. > > > > -- > > Bruce Chambers > > Help us help you: > http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin > > Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell >
From: Bob I on 25 Mar 2010 08:32 Press Winkey+Pause, look on System properties below Registered to. If the ?s in the number #####-???-#######-##### are OEM then it's OEM. Mina Nazieh wrote: > how can i know my operating system xp is oem or open licence on window > > "Bruce Chambers" wrote: > > >>Syah wrote: >> >>>I have a problem. I would like to update my graphic card driver and there two >>>kinds of windows xp. The problem is there are two types of update; one for >>>windows xp and one for windows xp professional x64. I am currently using >>>windows xp professional. I don't know what kind of windows xp am i using. Am >>>i using the windows xp or the windows xp professional x64? Can you help me >>>please? >> >> >> If you have to ask, you're almost certainly running the 32-bit >>version of WinXP. I'm not trying to be facetious; I'm sure you'd have >>noticed paying several thousand dollars more for the Itanium or Itanium >>II CPU required to run the original 64-bit version of WinXP Pro, or >>whether or not you purchased a computer with an AMD Athlon64 or Intel >>EM64T CPU. There are, of course, no 64-bit versions of WinXP Home, WinXP >>TabletPC, or WinXP MCE. Also, because WinXPx64 is available only as an >>OEM license, it doesn't come in a box. >> >>Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Overview >>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/overview.asp >> >> To verify for yourself, Click Start > Run, type in "Winver" and >>press <Enter>. If the resulting dialog box does not _explicitly_ state >>that you have "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" or "Windows XP Professional >>x64 Edition," then you have a 32-bit OS. >> >> >> >>-- >> >>Bruce Chambers >> >>Help us help you: >>http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> >>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin >> >>Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell >>
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