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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by agscala on Friday September 17, 2010 @02:59PM (#1702351)
Oh, so that what the WoW in the SysWoW64 folder name means
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by xpaulbettsx on Friday September 17, 2010 @03:39PM (#1702536)
Yep, the SysWOW64 directory has all the 32-bit DLLs in the system (usually an identical copy to the Win7 32-bit DLLs, though not always), and the System32 folder has the 64-bit binaries. Yes, this is confusing, but not breaking apps was more important
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