Questions tagged [32-bit]

Refers to processors where data are stored in 32-bit registers. Use for questions about hardware or software only if 32-bit architecture is central to the question. For questions comparing 32 vs. 64 bit architecture, use [32-vs-64-bit] instead of the individual [32-bit] and [64-bit] tags.

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Windows 7 x64. Some 32 bit applications refuse to install.

I have been having problems lately when trying to install older games onto my PC. It is only with 32 bit applications. A few games that will not install are: Drakan: Order Of The Flame TA Kingdoms (...
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Running an old 32bit application on Ubuntu 20.04

We currently have an ancient (1995) 32-bit application that we have to run called Muscat. (There is no source code - this was a commercial application.) It works on Ubuntu 18.04, though I cannot yet ...
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Why 32-bit installation of R is available in 64-bit machines?

I wanted to know why, when you install R for Windows on a x64 machine, it lets you choose between installing 64-bit,32-bit, or both. I don't understand why would you want to install 32-bit version of ...
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How large is the performance loss for a 64-bit VirtualBox guest running on a 32-bit host?

I have a 64-bit Virtualbox guest running Gentoo Linux (amd64) and it is currently hosted on a 32-bit Gentoo laptop. I've noticed that the performance of the VM is very slow compared to the ...
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What should I do to upgrade my current 32 bit Python to 64 bit - do I need additional package or to uninstall current?

Getting involved with gradually more complex assignments in Python, I wanted to install spacy via a pip install command, but realised (looking into a # of error reports) that spacy (used in text ...
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Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs version x86 or x64

I have just installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Microsoft Office 2010 Professionall Plus x86 (i.e. the 32-bit NOT the 64-bit Office version as recommended by Microsoft). Now I also want to install ...
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Windows Vista System Restore not working

Vista 32 bit. System Restore is creating restore points, but when I try to restore my system I get a message saying System Restore could not be completed and my system is returned to its original ...
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Win 7 ultimate : Trying to install 64 bit version, it keeps giving me the 32 bit version

I've got a very strange problem here. I have a 64 bit version of windows 7 and I am installing it via a USB drive. However I keep getting a 32 bit installation instead. This is why I know it's a 64 ...
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Vista 32 Stop Error 0x000000B4: Video Driver Failed to Initialize. Is there hope?

Looking around on th internets, it's looking like the only option I have left is format and reinstall, which is something I'm REALLY trying to avoid. The machine has alot of activated software from a ...
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Ubuntu Natty: 32-bit userland, 64-bit kernel?

I'm trying to manually install a 64-bit kernel for 32-bit Ubuntu. I have my reasons for doing so, but they're too complicated to explain here. Prior to Natty, this worked fine. Now, on Natty, I get ...
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Windows 7 Icons, Buttons, and Tabs corrupted...Professional 32-bit

The other day, about two or three ago, I was simply typing in a Microsoft Word document when my screen froze. After a few moments, it went black...I thought it was my vid hardware (dual nVidia 9800 ...
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Installing 32bit windows in 64bit UEFI

I have a device and a software from the 2000' that only work on 32bit windows OS. I currently have an Asus ROG GA503 that runs 64bit win11. I wanted to run windows 7 32bit on a USB stick so that I ...
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How to easily install 150+ updates on a 32 bit windows 7 laptop?

I have an old Asus laptop with windows 7 32 bit, and after fixing various driver problems, now I find myself with 150+ windows updates to install. Is there a way to install all of them in the right ...
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not in sodoers: boot into single user mode from mint18 live disc

I can't really say what happened, it seems it was all working good (ubuntu server 20.04, apache, mysql, a dockered wikijs..) I've been able do many sudo operation after installing the machine. Now, ...
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Is it possible to install GRUB on a 2006 MacBook with 32bit EFI so I can also boot cleanly from 64bit OS Ubuntu server?

The machine is working, after many tries and big effort, it is up and running. But to boot up the machine, I need to run a Linux Mint 18 boot disc, and tell the machine to boot from internal hard ...
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System32 redirected to sysWOW64, but cannot access sysnative

I'm using a program called InstallForge to generate installers that will place a batch file into the system32 folder. When it runs and tries to put it in C:\windows\system32\ it is redirected to C:\...
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32-bit colored icons not available on Visual Studio

I want to add an icon to my project and the icon is working, but Visual Studio (I've tried both 2019 and 2022) won't let me use 32-bit colors to create an icon. The icon editing tools are greyed out ...
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Wine-5.13: 0050:fixme:explorer:webbrowser_QueryInterface (...) interface not supported

When running Discord with Wine, the following errors occur: 00e0:fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevationType, ...) semi-stub 00e0:fixme:ieframe:DllGetClassObject ...
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Incorrect Monitor resolution linux mint 19.3 32 bit

When I installed linux mint 19.3 on 32 bit system the monitor resolution was fine and everything worked as normal. But suddenly yesterday the monitor resolution has shrunk down to 4:3 aspect ratio and ...
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Chrome version 89 on Windows 7 32-bit running out of memory

Previous version was working just fine. This version gobbling memory around 1Gb and snapping. Is there a setting that can be changed or must I downgrade?
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Word 2016 with the "Word could not create the work file" error message - What has been done, and not sure what to do next

My wife is having a problem with the "Word could not create the work file" error message, which has to be clicked on like 20 to 30 times to clear all the pop up windows. I tried the ...
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32Bit Windows Calculator produces wrong results in Windows 10 LTSC 2019 (Build 1809)

I was just wondering why the Windows calculator that comes with the LTSC-version of Windows (which actually is the old classic calculator from Windows 7, because the LTSC version does not come with ...
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Microsoft Access Database Engine - cannot install either 32-bit nor 64-bit version

We have a workstation running Windows 10 (1709.16299.2166) with Office 365 on which I was asked to install Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 for a consultant. After downloading the installer for ...
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How do I break the 2GB barrier on Windows 2016 VM?

I'm running a Windows 2016 64-bit VM on a QEMU-KVM hypervisor. On that VM I'm running an old 32-bit application which uses ~3GB RAM and was linked with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE to allow it to use more than ...
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Force exe to run in NON ELEVATED mode from Task scheduler

I am admin user. I have 32 bit exe which I have scheduled it from task scheduler to run at every night. Though it is running in elevated mode. How do I force it to run in non elevated mode. I did try ...
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gdb can't debug the 32bits program for linux

How to solve this? When I use the gdb to debug the 32bits program, this warning appeared. And this made the program can't run. This is the configuration information about gdb
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How to rename a file on an ext4 filesystem from Windows with ext4 incompatible features with ext3 enabled?

I know about doing something like mounting the disk but all those solutions works because ext2 is retro compatible with ext3 and ext4. But that time, it won’t work : I enabled ext4 features so ...
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Compatible version of Allegro with my GCC compiler

I am using 32 bit version of code::blocks 17.12 with TDM-GCC version 5.1.0-3 on windows 7 ultimate 32 bit. I was using Allegro 5 (allegro-mingw-gcc6.2.0-x86-static-5.2.2). It worked completely fine. I ...
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Error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'

I am working with a Virtex-7 FPGA library (consisting of millions of .h, .cpp, etc. files) which was previously compiled by a Win32 platform, and I am now trying to build it for an x64 platform. But ...
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Using 32-bit TTS voices on windows 7 64-bit

I am having problems using a 32-bit voice on a 64-bit system (windows 7). I tried accessing and setting my installed 32-bit voices via C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl, but whenever I open ...
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Regarding changing the 32 bit OS to 64 bit OS

My desktop PC is running a 32-bit OS. How can I change it to a 64-bit OS? To do this, do I have to change the processor, too?
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Controller crashes all games

I have bought Esperanza EG102 (really cheap just over 4 $) controller. It has a force feedback feature, so it crashes everything, that tries to connect to it. When I run joy.cpl for a vibration test, ...
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why Linux 64 bits system calls table is different

I just looked on the net on linux system calls numbers, and I found different numbers whether it is a 32 bits or 64 bits linux version. Why did Linux change the ordering of system calls ?? wouldn't ...
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Running 32 bit program of 64 bit Ubuntu in VirtualBox?

I have a few 32 bit .elf & .out files that I would like to run, and for this purpose I installed Ubuntu 13 64-bit in VirtualBox. (I would have preferred a 32 bit distribution, but highly limited ...
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32bit Internet Explorer on Windows 10 64bit

Is there a way to install 32bit version of Internet Explorer (AFAIK doesn't matter which version) on 64bit Windows 10? There already is Internet Explorer in Windows 10 but it seems there's only a ...
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Start 32 bit Windows on Virtualbox without VT-X

Since my main PC went down, I swapped my HDD to an old PC that doesn't support VT-X at all, while the broken one does. The problem is, my guest is a 32 bit Windows 7 that doesn't want to start ...
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32-bit and 64-bit versions of MSXML 4.0 SP3

In order to support an in-house developed application, the developer is asking for an installation of both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of MSXML 4.0 SP3. After installing onto Windows Server 2012, the ...
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Run the 32bit userland instead of the 64-bit one in a 64-bit linux environment

This may be the opposite of a question, but I was wondering if there is anyway to run a 32bit userland instead of the 64-bit one in a 64-bit linux environment. I could run 32-bit software via multi-...
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Error when installing 32-bit Windows 7 in VirtualBox

I tried installing a 64-bit Windows 7 in VirtualBox, but apparently my 64-bit laptop will not allow that. So I tried installing 32-bit Windows 7, but I get this error: Failed to open the optical disk ...
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Can I change my MacOSx version 10.7.5 from 64-bit to 32-bit mode? If so, how?

I recently purchased some logitech accessories and my computer will not recognize the tiny USB they provided unless I plug it into an additional wire component they provided, thus defeating the ...
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Unable to deploy any x86 Windows version with LiteTouch_x64

In MDT 2012 Update 1, I configured task sequences for Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 x64, Windows 2008 R2, and Windows XP (x86). I also generated Windows PE for x86 and x64 versions. In WDS, both boot ...
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Running hardware with only 32bit drivers in 64bit windows

Recently we had to upgrade a system to handle added HD IP cameras. This upgrade involved an entirely new computer build with the exception of a rather pricey Geovision DVR (PCI/GV1480 series). ...
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How can I force a hybrid 64/32bit application to install as a 32bit software in Windows 7?

Well the title says it all, when I install this application it installs in its 64 bit mode which is buggy for me, but the 32 bit mode worked perfectly on my previous computer, is there anyway to have ...
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Is iTunes freezing related to 32 or 64 bit version problem?

iTunes is nearly unusable for me, and freezes so many times it seems to be standard behavior. When I opened taskmgr this time I notice there are these running 64 bit iTunes is installed, but I do ...
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how to recover from Internet Explorer certificate errors in Windows XP SP3

my Internet Explorer works properly on some sites and on others it does not work,I would like to know what does it mean when the Internet Explorer displays certificate errors and how can I recover ...
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Is it possible to create more system reserved space?

I installed windows xp(32bit) on a laptop. But it had not a drivers for audio and the ethernet. I managed to install the audio driver. It installed on drive C(system reserved space) and it took all ...
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Unable to connect Win7 Ultimate to Win7 Pro

I have a Win7 32 bit PC I am using as a file server with a couple of external drives hanging off of it. I have a 64bit Win7 Pro desktop and a 32bit Win7 Pro laptop that can map to the "file server" ...
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Can't find SQLS connection settings on my system, 32-bit app, wrong registry?

I hope this is the right forum. A customer is moving their SQLS instance they use with a 3rd party application, AE. The settings can only be updated within the app, which is a bit annoying. They asked ...
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Linux Mint 21 cannot install some 32bit packages

This is the result of running sudo apt install wine32 on a Linux Mint 21 install, after installing the nvidia515 driver from the settings and enabling 32 bit support (sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386)...
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MSSql Database randomly not answering

We have a 32 Bit production machine that has MS SQL 2014 installed. 32 Bit is forced by twincat 2 running on it, (not compatible with 64 bit), thus the available ram is limited. Randomly, about twice ...
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