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DonMcCoy5657y@samwir
From a superuser answer:
"Backwards compatibility reasons. A whole lot of applications assume things they shouldn't assume and hard-code paths. And yes, that includes 64-bit applications. So on 64-bit Windows the folder system32 actually contains the 64-bit versions of DLLs. For the 32-bit DLLs there is the folder SysWoW64 which is what 32-bit applications see as system32"
Apps are hard coded!
Are you fucking kidding microsoft!!
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