Check these things on the PC where you want to install Windows 10: 64-bit or 32-bit processor (CPU). You'll create either the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows 10 that's appropriate for your CPU. To check this on your PC, go to PC info in PC settings or System in Control Panel, and look for System type. General Information
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Jump to PostWhat exactly is the point of this? How many people are going to do a clean install of WIndows 10 on a 32 bit machine in 2021?
To quote Microsoft: "Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds"
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rproffitt
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Keeping in mind that folk I encounter are mostly into PCs and more, even then over half of them don't care to look at what you wrote about. Instead they just want Chrome, Word and such to work and to be able to print a page now and then.
Can you share why you wrote the above?
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What exactly is the point of this? How many people are going to do a clean install of WIndows 10 on a 32 bit machine in 2021?
To quote Microsoft: "Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds"
rproffitt
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TIL! Recently we've moved the line. What line? We get a lot of old laptops, we set the line to 64 bit CPUs for CloudReady installs.
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