For most would-be Windows 7 users, a 64-bit version of Windows 7 is the right move. But if you don’t have sufficient RAM (at least 4GB), or you rely on devices that don’t have supporting 64-bit ...

Now that they're 64 (bits, that is), personal computers are still searching for developers to need them and feed them. In 2003, Advanced Micro Devices released 64-bit chips for PCs in the form of the ...

Ken wrote in saying he loves PCWorld, natch, and that he wants to know the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. I have to admit this isn’t something I’ve thought about in a long ...

Eric Foote is considering 64-bit Windows servers for his growing base of 4,500 users. But he’s in no big rush to make the shift from 32-bit computing. His first target application is Presentation ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

The Sysnative folder in Windows 64-bit is a virtual folder and an alias that points to the System32 folder on 64-bit systems. It doesn’t exist physically on your system. This post explains the ...

Along with the launch of 32-bit Chrome 37, Google today also released the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8 in the stable channel. Nevertheless, going 64-bit is still an opt-in ...

One of the more common questions I hear about Vista is which bit version of Windows Vista should one get. Do we go with x86 32 bit edition or x64 64 bit edition? I'm going to try to clear that ...

Windows on ARM isn't new: from Windows Phone to Windows RT to Windows IoT, Microsoft has had multiple systems that take Windows beyond the familiar Intel and AMD processors. Older versions of Windows ...

Valve has officially announced the end of support for 32-bit Windows operating systems, following a recent update that ...

Future versions of Steam will run on 64-bit versions of Windows only. Future versions of Steam will run on 64-bit versions of Windows only. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...