Windows 10: 32 bit os showing x64 processsor

32-bit os will only run 32-bit software. 64-bit os will run both 32 and 64 bit programs.

 

The very similar user interface tends to hide the fact that internally 32 and 64 bit operating systems are VERY different. A 64 bit OS can run most 32 bit software but this is not an inherent capability but something that must be designed in. And it isn't simple. The native environment in which 64 bit applications run is quite alien to a 32 bit application. A 32 bit process runs in a carefully prepared artificial environment where everything is as expected. The OS lies to the process about many things because it quite literally could not handle the truth.

When running a 32 bit OS a 64 bit processor switches into 32 bit mode because only in this mode would it behave as expected and only in this mode could it run 16 bit applications. The CPU is identified to applications as a 32 bit CPU because for practical purposes that is what it is. Only when running a 64 bit OS does the CPU reveal it's true nature.

 

That is because it is a 64 bit CPU.

 

wonder where the OP went

 

Poof is where they went.