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The history of the Windows PowerToys

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

During the development of Windows 95, as with the development of any project, the people working on the project write side programs to test the features they are adding or to prototype a feature. After Windows 95 shipped, some of those programs were collected into the first edition of the Windows 95 Power Toys. As I recall, the fir...

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Feb 1, 2005
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How to detect programmatically whether you are running on 64-bit Windows

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

To detect programmatically whether your 32-bit program is running on 64-bit Windows, you can use the IsWow64Process function. Do not do as some people do and hard-code the list of 64-bit processors. You'd think that after the hard-coded list of 64-bit processors changed the first time (when x64 was added to ia64), people would have learned thei...

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