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Computers running 64-bit versions of Windows generally have more resources such as processing power and memory, than their 32-bit predecessors. Also, 64-bit applications can access more memory than 32-bit applications (up to 18.4 million Petabytes). Therefore, if your scenarios include large files and/or working with large data sets and your computer is running 64-bit version of Windows, 64-bit is the right choice when:

You're using add-ins with Outlook, Excel, or other Office apps. While 32-bit applications can work with add-ins, they can use up a system's available virtual address space. With 64-bit apps, you have up to 128 TB of virtual address space which the app and any add-ins running the same process can share. With 32-bit apps, you might get as little as 2 GB of virtual address space which in many cases isn't enough and can cause the app to stop responding or crash.

You have 32-bit MAPI applications for Outlook. With a growing number of 64-bit Outlookcustomers, rebuilding 32-bit MAPI applications, add-ins, or macros for 64-bit Outlook is the recommended option, but if needed you can continue to run them with 32-bit Outlook only, as well. To learn about preparing Outlook applications for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, see Building MAPI Applications on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Platforms and the Outlook MAPI Reference.

If you're talking about an installer, you really should not hard-code the path to the system folder. Instead, let Windows take care of it for you based on whether or not your installer is running on the emulation layer.

You do not ever install your dlls, or third party dlls into \system32\ or \syswow64. If you have to statically load, you put your dlls in your exe dir (where they will be found). If you cannot predict the exe dir (e.g. some other exe is going to call your dll), you may have to put your dll dir into the search path (avoid this if at all poss!)

system32 and syswow64 are for Windows provided files... not for anyone elses files. The only reason folks got into the bad habit of putting stuff there is because it is always in the search path, and many apps/modules use static linking. (So, if you really get down to it, the real sin is static linking -- this is a sin in native code and managed code -- always always always dynamically link!)

I was taught to use Windows 3.1 and DOS, remember those days? Shortly after I worked with Macintosh computers strictly for some time, then began to sway back to Windows after buying a x64-bit machine.

System32 is where Windows historically placed all 32bit DLLs, and System was for the 16bit DLLs. When microsoft created the 64 bit OS, everyone I know of expected the files to reside under System64, but Microsoft decided it made more sense to put 64bit files under System32. The only reasoning I have been able to find, is that they wanted everything that was 32bit to work in a 64bit Windows w/o having to change anything in the programs -- just recompile, and it's done. The way they solved this, so that 32bit applications could still run, was to create a 32bit windows subsystem called Windows32 On Windows64. As such, the acronym SysWOW64 was created for the System directory of the 32bit subsystem. The Sys is short for System, and WOW64 is short for Windows32OnWindows64.
Since windows 16 is already segregated from Windows 32, there was no need for a Windows 16 On Windows 64 equivalence. Within the 32bit subsystem, when a program goes to use files from the system32 directory, they actually get the files from the SysWOW64 directory. But the process is flawed.

It's a horrible design. And in my experience, I had to do a lot more changes for writing 64bit applications, that simply changing the System32 directory to read System64 would have been a very small change, and one that pre-compiler directives are intended to handle.

Other folks have already done a good job of explaining this ridiculus conundrum ... and I think Chris Hoffman did an even better job here: -the-difference-between-the-system32-and-syswow64-folders-in-windows/

We all make stupid short-sighted mistakes in life. When Microsoft named their (at the time) Win32 DLL directory "System32", it made sense at the time ... they just didn't take into consideration what would happen if/when a 64-bit (or 128-bit) version of their OS got developed later - and the massive backward compatibility issue such a directory name would cause. Hindsight is always 20-20, so I can't really blame them (too much) for such a mistake. ...HOWEVER... When Microsoft did later develop their 64-bit operating system, even with the benefit of hindsight, why oh why would they make not only the exact same short-sighted mistake AGAIN but make it even worse by PURPOSEFULLY giving it such a misleading name?!? Shame on them!!! Why not AT LEAST actually name the directory "SysWin32OnWin64" to avoid confusion?!? And what happens when they eventually produce a 128-bit OS ... then where are they going to put their 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit DLLs?!?

All of this logic still seems completely flawed to me. On 32-bit versions of Windows, System32 contains 32-bit DLLs; on 64-bit versions of Windows, System32 contains 64-bit DLLs ... so that developers wouldn't have to make code changes, correct? The problem with this logic is that those developers are either now making 64-bit apps needing 64-bit DLLs or they're making 32-bit apps needing 32-bit DLLs ... either way, aren't they still screwed? I mean, if they're still making a 32-bit app, for it to now run on a 64-bit Windows, they'll now need to make a code change to find/reference the same ol' 32-bit DLL they used before (now located in SysWOW64). Or, if they're working on a 64-bit app, they're going to need to re-write their old app for the new OS anyway ... so a recompile/rebuild was going to be needed anyway!!!

Why can't a 64-bit program run on a 32-bit copy of Windows? How does my PC know that I'm running a 64-bit program? Does the program have a piece of code telling Windows that it's a 64-bit program or does Windows simply fail to execute it?

For another, the actual machine-code instructions inside the program are different. (That's kind of the whole point of having different architectures, by the way.) The 64-bit x86_64 architecture has more instructions than 32-bit x86 had, and 32-bit x86 had more instructions than 16-bit. (And things like Alpha or ARM or Itanium are so different that there's very little that could even be compared.)

Why can't a 64-bit program run on a 32-bit copy of Windows?
A 32-bit program stores the various locations where it has stored its data in 32-bits. And since it is possible to store 32-bits in 64-bits of storage, Windows will happily run the program while filling the other 32-bits of the 64-bit appropriately.

A 64-bit program on the otherhand uses 64-bits to indicate the locations. Since it is not possible to store 64-bits in a 32-bit storage without throwing away half of it, Windows will refuse to run a 64-bit program on a 32-bit computer.

Does the program have a piece of code telling Windows that it's a 64-bit program or does Windows simply fail to execute it?
Every program has a header, that tells Windows, every thing it needs to know about how to run the program including if it is a 32-bit application or a 64-bit application.

I saw a significant difference in file size of the two versions of the same program, so I think it's the code that's different. Is it possible to modify the code and make the program run?
64-bits occupy twice the amount of memory as 32-bits. That is why 64-bit programs are larger than their 32-bit counterparts.

These memory locations only make up a fraction of a program; the majority of it being instructions (which remain the same size) and stuff like text and icons. Since only the memory locations double in size, the 64-bit version of a program is only slightly larger than being double the size.

Because 2^64 is a much larger number, it's obvious that 64bits programs can access a much wider range of values; they can see/use a lot more memory. Large enough that you likely don't know the SI prefix: 16 exbibytes. What's an exbibytes? Large enough that nobody will really care for the foreseeable future.

It is possible that the previous OS installed on the machine was a 32-bit OS version and that is why you think the machine is 32-bit. However, a 32-bit OS will run with no trouble on a 64-bit processor.

These quick command line instructions will get you set up quickly with the latest Miniconda installer. For graphical installer (.exe and .pkg) and hash checking instructions, see Installing Miniconda.

These three commands quickly and quietly install the latest 64-bit version of the installer and then clean up after themselves. To install a different version or architecture of Miniconda for Windows, change the name of the .exe installer in the curl command.

These four commands quickly and quietly install the latest M1 macOS version of the installer and then clean up after themselves. To install a different version or architecture of Miniconda for macOS, change the name of the .sh installer in the curl command.

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