Guest tbone Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 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 Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition "tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message news:tl5s64pqc8a02dr3fq0c9920cefud5p3a4@4ax.com... >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. -- Allan
Guest michael Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 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 Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 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 Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 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 Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 Re: Strange behavior in Windows XP 64-bit Edition "tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message news:1a7v64lk9b7vv39u1i8uobpb84hvro48ki@4ax.com... > 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>. -- Allan
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