{"id":75361,"date":"2015-11-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/11\/30\/powertip-determine-windows-architecture-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:50","slug":"powertip-determine-windows-architecture-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-determine-windows-architecture-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Determine Windows Architecture with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to identify whether you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Window PowerShell to see if my version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>Get-CimInstance<\/b>&nbsp;and query the&nbsp;<b>OSArchitecture<\/b>&nbsp;property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).OSArchitecture<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to identify whether you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. &nbsp;How can I use Window PowerShell to see if my version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-CimInstance&nbsp;and query the&nbsp;OSArchitecture&nbsp;property: (Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).OSArchitecture &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-75361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to identify whether you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. &nbsp;How can I use Window PowerShell to see if my version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-CimInstance&nbsp;and query the&nbsp;OSArchitecture&nbsp;property: (Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).OSArchitecture &nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}