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Old 02-12-2021, 04:15 PM
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You didn't say what program you are trying to run but I suspect it was designed for both 32-bit machines running a much older OS than Win-10. Although, reinstalling with Win-10-32 is possible, it will probably cause you other issues down the road with other programs. More and more programs come now only in 64-bit. Plus, if it doesn't work, you still have your problem and you have messed up you new machine.

You might want to look into using some virtualization software such as VirtualBox, which is free. It enables you to run virtual machines on your physical computer. They can be any operating system. So you could build perhaps a win-7 VM image. Start it up, try your program and if it doesn't work, shut it down, delete the VM, and try again with a different OS. All of this does not impact the host computer.

There are probably some pre-built machine images which you could try.

Good luck.

Steve