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Brawaru ☕
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that's because wow64 stands for "windows (32) on windows 64" and system32 kept its name cause it was just too difficult to move from when you run a 32 bit app, its accesses are being secretly redirected to that wow64 directory, and also wow64node in registry. there's also sysnative redirect...

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Brawaru ☕
@brawaru.dev

taskmgr from wow64 runs lovely win10 task manager, but its cpu charts won't show up, and one of them will resemble windows 7 one

Brawaru ☕
@brawaru.dev

windows is crazy. on the one hand, their (maybe past) care for backwards compatibility is deeply admirable, on the other hand... wow(64), things are confusing in windows land