Re: Anyone have access to 64-bit Vista?

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Stephen Haberman
> >> <stephen@exigencecorp.com> wrote:
> >> > It kind of works on my Vista 64-bit system--I do not see the shell 
> >> > extensions in the native Windows Explorer (which is 64 bit), but I 
> >> > do see the shell extensions in an Explorer replacement I use 
> >> > (Xplorer2) that is 32-bit.
> >> >
> >> > I've seen other oddities in 32-bit vs. 64-bit programs--e.g. my alt 
> >> > tab replacement (Joe), which is 32-bit, works great with 32-bit 
> >> > programs but cannot remove focus from 64-bit programs (IE, Windows 
> >> > Explorer, etc.). Ironically, very few of the programs I use are 
> >> > 64-bit, so I get by with the alt tab replacement.
> >>
> >> Thanks! It seems that 64-bit explorer.exe will not load 32-bit shell 
> >> extensions. At least now I know I'm not going crazy. :)
> >
> > How could it?  You cannot have 32-bit code and 64-bit code running in the
> > same process.  At least not with x86_64 (AFAIK).
> 
> Correct, this is also my biggest gripe with how x86_64 is implemented.
> Thank you, AMD!