Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

[Guest tbone]

I just installed my favorite launcher program, TurboLaunch, on my new

quad core system with Win XP 64-bit, and noticed some strange

behavior.

 

I tried to add the icon for Computer Management to it, but it could

not see the executable file. I checked with Windows Explorer, and the

file pointed to by the Start menu shortcut exists (compmgmt.msc), but

TurboLaunch can't see it.

 

After coming across this with another program, nVidia's RAID manager

program, NvRaidMan.exe, I've come to think that 32-bit programs can't

see certain files in C:\Windows\system32.

 

I've temporarily worked around this by copying the files I want to run

via TurboLaunch into another folder. This seems to work; the programs

start up and seem to work ok.

 

Is this behavior expected? Can someone point me to a tutorial that

explains this? It might alert me to other differences to be aware of.

 

Thanks

tbone

[Guest Allan]

Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

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>I just installed my favorite launcher program, TurboLaunch, on my new

> quad core system with Win XP 64-bit, and noticed some strange

> behavior.

>

> I tried to add the icon for Computer Management to it, but it could

> not see the executable file. I checked with Windows Explorer, and the

> file pointed to by the Start menu shortcut exists (compmgmt.msc), but

> TurboLaunch can't see it.

>

> After coming across this with another program, nVidia's RAID manager

> program, NvRaidMan.exe, I've come to think that 32-bit programs can't

> see certain files in C:\Windows\system32.

>

> I've temporarily worked around this by copying the files I want to run

> via TurboLaunch into another folder. This seems to work; the programs

> start up and seem to work ok.

>

> Is this behavior expected? Can someone point me to a tutorial that

> explains this? It might alert me to other differences to be aware of.

Since this has to do with Windows XP Pro x64 you should post to

microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general .

There may be already posts about this issue in that NG.

 

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Allan

[Guest michael]

Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

 

tbone wrote:

> I just installed my favorite launcher program, TurboLaunch, on my new

> quad core system with Win XP 64-bit, and noticed some strange

> behavior.

>

> I tried to add the icon for Computer Management to it, but it could

> not see the executable file. I checked with Windows Explorer, and the

> file pointed to by the Start menu shortcut exists (compmgmt.msc), but

> TurboLaunch can't see it.

>

> After coming across this with another program, nVidia's RAID manager

> program, NvRaidMan.exe, I've come to think that 32-bit programs can't

> see certain files in C:\Windows\system32.

>

> I've temporarily worked around this by copying the files I want to run

> via TurboLaunch into another folder. This seems to work; the programs

> start up and seem to work ok.

>

> Is this behavior expected? Can someone point me to a tutorial that

> explains this? It might alert me to other differences to be aware of.

>

> Thanks

> tbone

The WOW64 emulator redirects the %windir%\system32 in the 32-bit

sub-system to %windir%\syswow64 in the real machine.

[Guest tbone]

Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

 

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, none of the news servers I

use have any groups specific to Windows 64bit systems. Perhaps you

could reflect this thread there. I did get an answer, so perhaps

others could derive benefit from it.

 

Thanks

tbone

>Since this has to do with Windows XP Pro x64 you should post to

>microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general .

>There may be already posts about this issue in that NG.

[Guest tbone]

Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

 

That explains it!

 

Thanks

tbone

>The WOW64 emulator redirects the %windir%\system32 in the 32-bit

>sub-system to %windir%\syswow64 in the real machine.

[Guest Allan]

Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

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> Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, none of the news servers I

> use have any groups specific to Windows 64bit systems. Perhaps you

> could reflect this thread there. I did get an answer, so perhaps

> others could derive benefit from it.

Try the server <msnews.microsoft.com>.

 

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Allan