Can I Run my 64bit as 32?

mckevstah

mckevstah

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Hello people,

I need help. So i have my Laptop, it runs 64Bit windows 7. (It has 6gig RAM)
And i use it while i am at College. I need ot access the Wifi, and it connects to it fine. HOWEVER, the college demands that we download a certificate. After i have done as asked, it does not allow me to view some pages, such as Google.

I emailed the college IT department and it turns out they do not support 64bit.

So is there a way i can make mine boot up at 32? or make Firefox boot as 32bit or something/

Thanks in advance, Kevin :)
 
Firefox is a x86 app. You can't change Windows running as x64 tho. That would need a reinstall of a x86 windows.

What is the certificate that you have to download?
 
What certificate? For authentication?

Your IT Dept is fobbing you off. A certificate is a certificate is a certificate and 32bit or 64bit makes no odds.

"Do not support 64bit"

They are an IT Dept, not software developers. What SPECIFICALLY about 64bit do they not support?
 
Not sure, just a certificate so i can access the internet.

And yeah for authentication i think.

And i don;t know mate, thats what they told me, and when i am on the wifi, it actually doesnt let me go on hardly any sites, so it must be affecting me somehow :/
 
mckevstah said:
Not sure, just a certificate so i can access the internet.

And yeah for authentication i think.

And i don;t know mate, thats what they told me, and when i am on the wifi, it actually doesnt let me go on hardly any sites, so it must be affecting me somehow :/
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Can you get to any external websites at all? If the certificate is for authentication and you can get out to a couple of websites then odds are that's not the issue

Do you get a 404 message on some sites?
 
NiCkNaMe said:
Can you get to any external websites at all? If the certificate is for authentication and you can get out to a couple of websites then odds are that's not the issue

Do you get a 404 message on some sites?
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Yes, i can get on youtube and yahoo, but not google and wordpress ect. The wifi works fine at home so i do not think thats the issue. Nor is it that they have blocked them.. :s
 
To help diagnose it a bit, fire up and command prompt (press Start button and type cmd) and try:

nslookup google.com
or
nslookup wordpress.org
(checks if DNS is working)

Then try a trace route to see where it's getting stuck:

tracert google.com

Posting the result of that can reveal network information your IT guys prob don't want us to know, but you need to check that it lists the route all the way to google.com. When it gets to 'Trace complete' it should have an end result and not lots of stars *s
 
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