http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/64bit/popular/2012-02-06T16:34:02-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2012-02-06T16:34:02-08:00zxwhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4180790/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578035-disable-file-system-redirector/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578035 by <a href="/recipes/users/4180790/">zxw</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/32bit/">32bit</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/64bit/">64bit</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/redirector/">redirector</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/windows/">windows</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>This disables the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx">Windows File System Redirector</a>.</p> <p>When a 32 bit program runs on a 64 bit operating system the paths to C:/Windows/System32 automatically get redirected to the 32 bit version (C:/Windows/SysWow64), if you really do need to access the contents of System32, you need to disable the file system redirector first.</p>