{"id":74031,"date":"2015-08-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/11\/powertip-determine-if-powershell-is-running-x86-or-x64\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:38","slug":"powertip-determine-if-powershell-is-running-x86-or-x64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-determine-if-powershell-is-running-x86-or-x64\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Determine if PowerShell is Running x86 or x64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Boe Prox shows how to determine if Windows PowerShell is running x86 or x64.<\/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 use Windows PowerShell to determine if I am running x86 or x64?<\/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>[intptr]::Size&nbsp;<\/b>as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Switch ([intptr]::Size) {<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 {&quot;x86&quot;}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8 {&quot;x64&quot;}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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: Boe Prox shows how to determine if Windows PowerShell is running x86 or x64. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if I am running x86 or x64? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;[intptr]::Size&nbsp;as follows: Switch ([intptr]::Size) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 {&quot;x86&quot;} &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8 {&quot;x64&quot;}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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":[162,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-74031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-boe-prox","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Boe Prox shows how to determine if Windows PowerShell is running x86 or x64. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if I am running x86 or x64? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;[intptr]::Size&nbsp;as follows: Switch ([intptr]::Size) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 {&quot;x86&quot;} &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8 {&quot;x64&quot;}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031","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=74031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031\/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=74031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}