Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64 (files lost)
Martin v. Loewis
martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jun 24 03:34:07 EDT 2011
> Therefore, Windows has a "trick" for mark the file like visible, or not,
> in 32 mode. What trick?
It's called file system redirection. When you access \windows\system32
in a 32-bit process, you *actually* access \windows\syswow64, which
has entirely different files.
The same also happens for parts of the registry.
Regards,
Martin
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