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On 08/06/2009 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Confirmed.  The reason is that a datastructure on the NT level has
> another size on 64 bit systems, and the WOW64 layer doesn't translate
> the structure into the 32 bit format.  The function is unsupported, so
> that makes sort of sense.  I'll create another solution using the
> official function for to fetch that information.  Unfortunaltey it
> doesn't exist on NT4, so I have to sp3cial case that(*)

Thanks.

> (*) Is anybody here actually still using NT4?

It looks like MS dropped support for NT4 in 2004[1].  Since we are 
dropping support for 9x/ME for the same reason, why not NT4?

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifewinfaq#Windows%20NT%20Server


Yaakov

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