Why Windows 11 keeps 64-bit files in System32 and 32-bit files in SysWOW64, according to Microsoft

For obvious reasons, Microsoft doesn’t make a 32-bit edition of Windows 11, but the OS still has to run decades of 32-bit apps, and there are plenty of them. Redmond’s solution is two system folders: System32 for native 64-bit files and SysWOW64 for 32-bit copies, plus what Microsoft calls the WOW64 file system redirector, which sneakily sends... Weiterlesen: Why Windows 11 keeps 64-bit files in System32 and 32-bit files in Sys…