# Vista Service Pack 1/XP Service Pack 3

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**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-service-pack-1-xp-service-pack-3/196912 "2008-04-17T18:58:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![fattyvr6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@fattyvr6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fattyvr6)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-service-pack-1-xp-service-pack-3/196912/21 "2008-04-18T22:10:28Z")

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> [@Recent pics of yourself](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/recent-pics-of-yourself/36001/15):
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> Unless you write installation software that requires knowledge of the platform/os/bitlevel/proc-ID/architecture, it probably wouldn’t affect you.
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> As it stands, that is a good chunk of what I (am supposed to) do at work 😃
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> There may be some games that check that environment variable, but I doubt they’d have to see the PROCESSOR\_IDENTIFIER…probably just knowing the PROCESSOR\_ARCHITECTURE for most of them would be sufficient.

No, I stay away from writing software. I go to school for IT, but I’ll probably be doing networking engineering/security when it’s all said and done. Writing software frustrates me. And yes, as far as I know there isn’t much end user software that needs to see the process identifier.

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