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[FC] Windows2003 64-bit - Directory listing

Jason Meaden
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:53:43 -0700

You are actually seeing the contents of a directory called C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64 
and not C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

If you look in Explorer (which is running in 64-bit mode) at 
C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64 then you will notice that it contains the same contents as 
what you see when you look at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 in FCW (which is running in 
32 bit).  As a test, using explorer, copy a file into SYSWOW64 and you will see 
it under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 when you look with FCW.

This isn't a bug in FCW .. it is a redirection that Windows is doing behind the 
scenes.  The 32-bit binaries are all under C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64 and the 64-bit 
ones are under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.  It is to prevent 32-bit apps trying to 
call 64-bit binaries and vice versa.  Can't have both in the same directory, so 
Windows does the translation.

Kind Regards,


Jason Meaden.



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----- Original message -----
From: "Henning Nitschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "File Commander mailing list" <fc@silk.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:23 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [FC] [FCW] Windows2003 64-bit - Directory listing

Hy Brian,

we use you Tool several years (former OS/2 and now Windows) now and are very 
pleased to have it.

There is a very strange problem with directory listing on Win2003SP2-64bit.
At the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32 FCW shows up a folder named "Drivers" (note 
the capital-D) with nearly no contents.
Explorer shows a folder named "drivers" with the usual content known from 
32-bit e.g. "etc".

What is the cause and how can we avoid the problem?


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