On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 12:23:18, Mayayana
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| because of the
| sea-change involved with 10 (and the suspicion that 32-bit 10 will be
| hard to find and cease support soon

? 32-bit software is supported under Win64, so it's
not really an issue. The only limitation I know of is
with in-process software. Shell extension DLLs can only

Don't know what "in-process" means, but Turnpike is (I think) indeed a
shell extension. It worked right up to the last pre-release version of
7-64 - which still contained whatever was needed, and switched to it
when required - but under the first official release (and all since), it
doesn't.

run under a matching Explorer. DLLs in general are
in-process. But I've circumvented that for most things
by making COM EXEs. It's the same thing as the DLL, but
it runs in its own process so it can be used with 64-bit
software.

(I doubt you'd be able to with Turnpike. [If you could, I think there'd
be lots who would give you Real Money!])

.... All of which is to say that 32 vs 64 is mostly invisible
now.

mostly (-:

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