According to https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2923, latest and future Windows versions will only work for 64 bit. So then https://www.geany.org/download/releases/ should mention that one way or another. Perhaps replacing in the table "Windows" with "Windows 64bit [^1] " and adding a footnote below the table : [^1]: For Windows 32bit, you can get version 1.37.1 or older, see Older versions section below.