yep. I've seen it and can replicate it on queue. If you are opening the 
registry in a 32-bit context on that server, you won't see the Wow6432Node key.
This can happen if regedit is being executed from a 32-bit app, e.g. 32-bit 
CMD, or 32-bit version of regedit (i.e. c:\Windows\SysWOW64\regedit.exe)

Things to check are:

*         How are you opening the registry? try typing "C:\Windows\regedit.exe" 
into a Run window.

*         Check the path environment variable to ensure that 
C:\Windows\SysWOW64 is not before any of the native locations, i.e. 
C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32, etc

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of J- P
Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2015 9:54 AM
To: NT
Subject: [NTSysADM] wow6432node hidden/missing

OS 2012r1

So this one really has me stumped, i'm troubleshooting an app and it says check 
the key in HKLM\Software\wow6432node

So I open the registry and the the ENTIRE WOW6432  IS MISSING, so i go the 
second server, also a 2012r1 installed from the same media at the same time,  
sure enough , as expected the key is there.

So I decide , lets try cross  connecting to the registries via remote and these 
are the results

>From the server with the full registry HKLM\SW\6432 , if I connect to the 
>server where its missing, it does show the HKLM\6432 key and subkeys.

However, from the server with the missing/hidden 6432 , if I connect to any 
other server it does NOT show the HKLM\6432 .

So it seems like the view is being somehow "filtered" , has anyone every seen 
such a thing?




Jean-Paul Natola


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