WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system that is capable of running 32-bit applications and is included on all 64-bit versions of Windows — including Windows 2000 Limited Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, IA-64 and x64 versions of Windows Server 2003, 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, as well as the 64 bit edition of Windows 7. In Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core, it's an optional component. WoW64 is designed to take care of many of the differences between 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows, particularly involving structural changes to Windows itself.
-- JRS [email protected] Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- > From: DSinc <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 11:27:45 AM > Subject: Re: [H] Freeze up > > Sam, > From what I read, your wife downloaded something (?wow64?) that may require > 64-bit processing. W2K, IIRC, only does 32-bit anything. > You may need to dig down and get rid of what she last downloaded.... and > tried > to run/launch. That is all I can see for now. > Best, > Duncan > > > Sam Franc wrote: > > My wife has a W2000 box and she is computer illiterate. > > Last night she froze up her box somehow. > > Had to shut it down by the off switch. > > Nothing else would work. > > This am we get this message: > > "The procedure entry point get system wow 64 directory A could not be > > located > in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" > > What needs to be done? > > I am not an expert. > > Sam > >
