Useful WOW64 File System Trick
On all 64-bit versions of Windows, the operating system performs a few file system and registry tricks for 32-bit applications. Essentially, operations targeting certain locations are transparently redirected to separate locations to allow applications that might not even know they’re on a 64-bit machine to interact with a more predictable environment. The functioning of 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows is described in detail in MSDN. The short version is that when applications are looking for files into C:Program Files, they’re transparently redirected to C:Program Files (x86). The same goes for C:WindowsSystem32, which contains the 64-bit Windows binaries and is […]
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