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Shortcuts confusion - x64/x32
I'd like to create a few shortcuts for a dock I'll be trying out on Windows 10 64-bit for:
Notepad
Task Manager
On my old 32-bit Windows 7 PC, it was simple - just create a shortcut to the exe in the system32 folder. But with 64-bit, I have a system32 and a syswow64 folder. Both folders have a notepad.exe and a taskmgr.exe, along with cmd.exe. So which folder should I link the shortcuts to? Logic would tell me the syswow64 folder, but if I type in notepad or task manager in the search box and run it from the result, it runs the version in the 32-bit folder, so I'm confused - I thought it would have run the syswow64 versions. Is there a reason why it runs the 32-bit versions? I want to make sure I link to the correct versions.