Reliable Way To Find SysWow64 folder?

[Scott Wolfington]

Hello everyone,

Is there a reliable way to find the SysWow64 folder on 64bit installation of Windows? I'm looking for something like GetSystemDirectory and GetWindowsDirectory.

Will SysWow64 always be in the %WINDIR%\SysWow64\ folder? If so, then concatenating the results of GetWindowsDirectory and "\SysWow64" should be sufficient. I'd much rather have a function that returns the path though.

It's been a long time since I've been to the forums. Hope everyone is well.

Regards,
Scott

[José Roca]

DECLARE FUNCTION GetSystemWow64Directory LIB "KERNEL32.DLL" ALIAS "GetSystemWow64DirectoryA" ( _
   BYREF ASCIIZ _                      ' __out LPSTR lpBuffer
 , BYVAL DWORD _                       ' __in  UINT  uSize
 ) AS DWORD                            ' UINT

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...05(VS.85).aspx

[Scott Wolfington]

Thanks José. Much appreciated.