This is the kind of screw you get with backwards compatibility

http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2012/03/16/diagnosing-weird-problems-a-stack-overflow-case-study.aspx

tl;dr - Windows fakes you out, basically giving you different files at the 
same place in the file system depending on whether you're running a 32-bit 
executable or a 64-bit executable, because people hard-code the path to 
Windows binaries into their code and expect it to still work.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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