{"id":4247,"date":"2013-01-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/01\/27\/powertip-find-printers-that-use-32-bit-or-64-bit-drivers\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-printers-that-use-32-bit-or-64-bit-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-printers-that-use-32-bit-or-64-bit-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Printers That Use 32-bit or 64-bit drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 to find print devices that use 32- or 64-bit drivers.<\/span><\/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 find print devices on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8 that use 32-bit or 64-bit drivers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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 the&nbsp;<strong>Get-PrinterDriver&nbsp;<\/strong>cmdlet and use the&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>?<\/strong>&nbsp;Is an alias) to filter out the&nbsp;<strong>printerenvironment<\/strong>&nbsp;property. Use the&nbsp;<strong>match<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>operator to find either 64 or 32 as your needs require. Below are examples of this technique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-PrinterDriver | ? printerenvironment -match 64<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-PrinterDriver | ? printerenvironment -match 32<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 to find print devices that use 32- or 64-bit drivers. &nbsp;How can I find print devices on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8 that use 32-bit or 64-bit drivers? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-PrinterDriver&nbsp;cmdlet and use the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;(?&nbsp;Is an alias) to filter out the&nbsp;printerenvironment&nbsp;property. Use the&nbsp;match&nbsp;operator to find either 64 or 32 as your needs require. [&hellip;]<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 to find print devices that use 32- or 64-bit drivers. &nbsp;How can I find print devices on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8 that use 32-bit or 64-bit drivers? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-PrinterDriver&nbsp;cmdlet and use the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;(?&nbsp;Is an alias) to filter out the&nbsp;printerenvironment&nbsp;property. Use the&nbsp;match&nbsp;operator to find either 64 or 32 as your needs require. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/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=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}