I have a 64-bit HP Pavillion with 64-bit Windows 7 installed. However, my 64-bit command prompt will not run, giving me an error that it is incompatible with my machine no matter where I run it from or how.
I've limped along for a long while without a command prompt (because it's not vital to my day to day use of this computer), but I recently noticed that running the 32-bit command prompt as an Admin runs it through C:\Windows\System32>
This is a lie. [strike]All 64-bit files are inaccessible.[/strike]
Update: More tinkering with system variables seems to have let me access the right place. However, the overall problem still exists, as everything the command prompt writes to a file still ends up in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 regardless.
Just now, I was tinkering with my system variables (for a relatively unrelated project), and noticed that while all of the most vital functions redirected through System32, none of the program-related System variables lead through the Programs file: all are through Programs (86).
I'm starting to get the sinking feeling that my computer is slow simply because it's a 64-bit machine that, to do anything other than scratch it's nose, has to emulate itself as a 32-bit machine.
I've limped along for a long while without a command prompt (because it's not vital to my day to day use of this computer), but I recently noticed that running the 32-bit command prompt as an Admin runs it through C:\Windows\System32>
This is a lie. [strike]All 64-bit files are inaccessible.[/strike]
Update: More tinkering with system variables seems to have let me access the right place. However, the overall problem still exists, as everything the command prompt writes to a file still ends up in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 regardless.
Just now, I was tinkering with my system variables (for a relatively unrelated project), and noticed that while all of the most vital functions redirected through System32, none of the program-related System variables lead through the Programs file: all are through Programs (86).
I'm starting to get the sinking feeling that my computer is slow simply because it's a 64-bit machine that, to do anything other than scratch it's nose, has to emulate itself as a 32-bit machine.
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