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From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de>
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Subject: Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:34:07 +0200
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> 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