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Old 10-27-2009, 08:40 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by BroadHopper View Post
... my Compaq laptop (Presario F700) it says the machine is compatible with Windows 7 64 bit OS. My machine is a 32 bit machine!...
Your Presario F700 probably has a AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU which is 64 bit. The windows software you are running is the 32 bit version which will run on a 64 bit machine. .... Yes, it can be confusing.
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