Thesystem isolates 32-bit applications from 64-bit applications, which includes preventing file and registry collisions. Console, GUI, and service applications are supported. The system provides interoperability across the 32/64 boundary for scenarios such as cut and paste and COM. However, 32-bit processes cannot load 64-bit DLLs for execution, and 64-bit processes cannot load 32-bit DLLs for execution. This restriction does not apply to DLLs loaded as data files or image resource files; for more information, see LoadLibraryEx.
A 32-bit application can detect whether it is running under WOW64 by calling the IsWow64Process function (use IsWow64Process2 if targeting Windows 10). The application can obtain additional information about the processor by using the GetNativeSystemInfo function.
Note that 64-bit Windows does not support running 16-bit Windows-based applications. The primary reason is that handles have 32 significant bits on 64-bit Windows. Therefore, handles cannot be truncated and passed to 16-bit applications without loss of data. Attempts to launch 16-bit applications fail with the following error: ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT.
I'm using Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 on a 64-bit machine. Default windows services and applications (including IE8) run in 64-bit mode as seen in Task Manager. Yet 3rd party 64-bit executable applications won't start.
If this was 64-bit XP, the only valid reason you would get that error with a correct download and properly functioning system is if you downloaded a 16-bit application. For 32-bit XP you would get that error with a 64-bit application. Audacity is 32-bit so that does not apply.
See Windows 7 and .exe is not a valid win 32 application message - Microsoft Community for some file system checks you can make. Or just backup your data and reinstall Windows, or (safer) install a version of Linux.
Gale
Why exactly has my last post documenting download sources and suggesting there is some issue with the way Audacity is being compiled/packaged rather than some issue with downloaded data not appeared as yet ?
FWIW, I have a Windows XP SP3 installation that I use for testing purposes. It has very little else on it other than Windows XP SP3, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 (required to run Audacity on Windows XP) and Audacity. Audacity 2.0.6 runs fine on that setup.
In short, whilst I cannot at this stage confirm whether there is/was a pre-existing malware issue with my system or not, all possible steps were taken to ensure that a valid zip file was obtained from a valid location and then checked locally prior to use.
(definitely not specifically aimed at the Audacity team but rather towards ALL software developers in general because this kind of nonsense wasting extraordinary amounts of my time really p****s me off !)
Editing the manifest file as you did to V9.0.21022.8 does sometimes work on XP yes, but sometimes it does not. Hence the advice remains, run or repair the VS2008 SP1 redistributables. The error you got is not common (it should have been error 14001) so something non-standard is going on in your machine (whether you want to admit it or not). So the advice remains to check your system files. You have chosen to run a system that is no longer supported with essential security updates.
Just so you know, nothing will change with the current situation because it is history now. The next Audacity release will use VS2013. So do feel free to test 2.1.0-alpha on your system.
Gale
I have bought a new HP ProLiant ML110 G7 server with 12gb of RAM. I am planning to run this server in a small office and decided to go with Windows Small Business Server 2011. However I an having a few installation problems.
I ask it to install from a DVD and select the standard folder. I then choose the max partition size on the 250GB SATA drive that came with the machine. I complete the product information entry ie computer name etc, install the SNMP and PSP which are recommended. The system then partitions the disk and starts to load the drivers. At around 27% it spits out the SmartStart CD and I insert the Windows Server 2011 disc. It recognises the disk and runs through the installation. The machine then reboots.
Following the reboot the windows server installer starts up, however it never finishes. After the loading files progress bar finishes I see a desktop background and a smaller command prompt window. In the command prompt window which says...
"click OK and you will be left at the command prompt. The problem I discovered is that the hpssbem.exe file is 0 bytes... empty. I inserted the smart start CD and from the console window I copied the correct 64-bit file (...\compaq\install\w2k8...\hpssbem.exe)from the smart start CD to the C: drive on the server, then executed the hpssbem.exe program again from the command line"
See the link posted above as I added to that other message thread what I had to do to work around the same error - just a slight variant to what was done here. The above is correct - if the hpssbem.exe file on the CD is not corrupt - mine somehow was so I had to do some other things.
When installing Wine on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04, both 64-bit support and 32-bit support get installed. If I run wine foo.exe where foo.exe is a 64-bit-aware installer, it thinks it's on 64-bit Windows. This would be fine if this mode didn't fail, but in my case, it does (yet the Wine database suggests the app I'm trying to install should work, presumably as a 32-bit app).
You can in an easy way copy all win32 files into .wine to substitute the lesser need to change all run commands as well. By avoiding doing to much changes to the system in another hand. At first, run the command:
Then copy all content of prefix32 found in your home directory to your .wine content area both files and directories, first either backup or just remove the content in the directory .wine if you already are planning running 32bit arch of wine, don't overwrite content! Rather delete if you already made a backup.
Remember that directory .wine might be hidden, any use of seeing hidden files will make you be able to see the folder in your home directory. You can as well use the Go in Thunar with Ubuntu to either just go straight into the folder called .wine in the home directory and make the process as told here before.
While you can not run within the same containers you can actually still have both by setting up Biarch. Please see this Wine white paper on setup.While hsivonen gives you the easiest answer this would be the way to achieve your desired functionality.
I have a problem at the moment which i'm sure will crop up more often as more people move on to 64-bit systems. i keep getting a 'd:/is not a valid win32 application' error message when i try and install games such as 'act of war' 'battlefield 2' and 'GTA San Andreas' amongst others, also when i right click on my dvd drive letter and 'explore' the contents to find the setup.exe file and run it i get another error messgage saying 'd:/setup.exe is not valid win32 application' . :angry:
I have however managed to install and run 'Half Life 2' and 'Quake 4' without any problem, my system has just been recently built and is all new components except the ATX case, PSU, sound card, graphics card and tv card, my spec is:
I have all the latest drivers for my hardware and my games are shop bought that worked great on my old 32-bit AMD XP2600 machine, but now only a few will install. I haven't got Windows XP64 because i am waiting for SP1 to be released before i get it. :rolleyes:
I am the administrator of my computer so there are no limitations, every other piece of software i have seems to work such as Cubase SX 2 and all my VST instruments and plug-ins, i know my DVD drive works coz it's brand new and was installed briefly on my old machine before i upgraded.
I have heard of similar problems with Windows XP64 from other forums ie: games do not run so i can't see much point in using XP64 untill the service pack is released, i have seen patches for some of the games i have but they seem to only update the installed version and only for Win XP64 nothing for Win XP 32, i need something that can fix the way Windows XP SP2 treats 32 bit applications in a 64 bit PC.
Wait - you're running 32-bit Windows? Then this has nothing to do with 64-bit at all, unless you're trying to run a 64-bit application, which will generate that message since your system isn't 64-bit.
Check your event log: right click my computer > manage > event viewer > system. Look for warnings or errors from a "cdrom" or "atapi" source. I'm guessing your optical drive isn't working properly (I think you have a bit too much faith in brand-new items). Try the drive from your old computer to see if that works. Less likely but still possible is that you have a bad IDE controller or cable. If you find any other warnings or errors, feel free to post them here (although ignore sources such as W32Time, DHCP, and DCOM). It's certainly not a 64/32-bit issue though. When the CPU is in 32-bit mode (which it would be with normal Windows XP), nothing that is 64-bit can run, and it will behave like any other 32-bit CPU. When you installed those 64-bit drivers for your sound and graphics card, they were probably just a driver pack and the installer correctly installed the 32-bit drivers.
good point there, the drivers did say they were for both 64 and 32 bit so your right coz i'm running Xp pro then my computer is running in 32 bit mode so there for it has nothing to do with my processor being 64 bit.
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