[Gpg4win-devel] user feedback: gpgex 64 bit desired

[Drew Northup]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 02:28 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> The background is this: In Windows Vista 64 bit and some (or all?) Windows 7
> versions before the RC version, it was possible to start a separate 32-bit
> explorer even on 64-bit machines, which could load 32 bit extensions.
> Apparently this feature was removed from Windows 7 RC and subsequently.  This
> means that GpgEX does not work on Windows 7 64 bit.

Marcus,
Thank you for bringing up this information. I was aware that 16-bit
applications had been essentially embargoed from Windows 7, but I'd not
heard anything about this change. I suspect that it will turn out to be
something a great many of us will have to look into.

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