Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64 (files lost)

[Martin v. Loewis]

> Therefore, Windows has a "trick" for mark the file like visible, or not,
> in 32 mode. What trick?

It's called file system redirection. When you access \windows\system32
in a 32-bit process, you *actually* access \windows\syswow64, which
has entirely different files.

The same also happens for parts of the registry.

Regards,
Martin