# Hugo on Win7 64 Bit

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988 "2016-03-25T07:39:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_Konduri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kalyan\_Konduri](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kalyan_Konduri)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988/1 "2016-03-25T07:39:32Z")

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Hi,

I am new to this forum, so please pardon my ignorance.

I tried to download the latest release v0.15 for Windows. “hugo\_0.15\_windows\_amd64.zip”

after pasting the hugo executable to bin folder, I ran “hugo help” and it shows me the below message.  
“This version of D:\Hugo\bin\hugo.exe is not compatible with the version of Windo  
ws you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you n  
eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the  
software publisher.”

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**Author:** ![Wouter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/wouter/32/1356_2.png) [@Wouter](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Wouter)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988/2 "2016-03-26T13:07:57Z")

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Hi Kalyan,

All I can comment is that I am also new (2 weeks experience) and my hugo\_0.15\_windows\_amd64.zip following the instructions works well… Are you sure that you are on Win64? (pardon my ignorance in this case 🙂 )

Good luck! Wouter

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**Author:** ![hugon00b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@hugon00b](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hugon00b)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988/3 "2016-03-27T02:07:33Z")

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Hi Kalyan,

you can check if your Windows system is 32-bit or 64-bit via commandline

```
C:\Users\$UID>wmic os get osarchitecture
OSArchitecture
64-Bit

```

And 64bit-systems should run 32bit binary without any hassle

hth

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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_Konduri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kalyan\_Konduri](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kalyan_Konduri)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-on-win7-64-bit/2988/4 "2016-03-28T06:47:14Z")

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Thanks @hugon00b and @wouter for responding!

Yes, I was too ignorant! I was working on 2 machines one 64 bit and other 32 bit. That was the reason behind confusion. Thanks again.