Your system identifies as running both x64 and x86 architectures.
Your system identifies as running both x64 and x86 architectures.
My computer shows that is is x64 in settings but shows x86 in the files of the computer? Is this normal?
It's typical, not all programs need 64-bit. The smaller ones fit in the 32-bit space.
Earlier discussions indicated that 64-bit processors can handle 32-bit programs and many simpler applications are limited to 32-bit versions.
x86 refers to the processor architecture or instruction set a CPU uses. An x86 CPU that supports 64-bit is also called x86_64 or AMD64. Microsoft also refers to 64-bit applications as "x64" located in C:\Program Files\ and 32-bit apps in C:\Program Files (x86).
x86 are 32-bit applications functioning on 64-bit hardware, which explains the x86-64 designation.