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Aha, I have found a flaw in the logic to detect whether my program is running on 64-bit Windows

September 4, 2014 Sep 4, 2014 09/4/14

Raymond Chen

Some time ago, I described how to detect programmatically whether you are running on 64-bit Windows, and one of the steps of the algorithm was "If you are a 64-bit program, then you are running on 64-bit Windows, because 32-bit Windows cannot run 64-bit programs." Every so often, somebody will claim that they found a flaw in this logic: "...