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Originally Posted by Japo
Of course you can see both directories if you look via their actual paths, but that's unrelated. 32-bit processes can see true system32 too. But when linking to a DLL it's in principle Windows who finds the DLL file from a name without path.
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Well, this part is not right in my experience. It's limited to servers though, as my first true desktop Win64 is only one year here.
For servers, any 32-bit process automatically redirected to syswow64 in any case when it tried to access system32. I can _try_ to access system32, but in result will land in syswow64 silently. It was very confusing for me when I tried 32-bit file managers on win64, because I never was able to found 'hosts' (that exists only in real system32, of course).