mathedman wrote:

I just bought a small, inexpensive (cheap??) HP 64 bit Win 8
laptop for a grandson. I doesn't run 32 bit stuff . What am I missing?
A setting somewhere?

"it doesn't run"
Is that what you tell the car shop when you bring in your car, too?

You expect anyone to know what is happening on your computer when you
don't bother to describe what DOES happen when you try to "run 32 bit
stuff"? And just what is that "stuff"?