"Tricking" a Windows application

[krankzinnig]

I need to "trick" an application to think its actually running on a 64-bit OS even though its not, is that possible? I already have my code checking for the OS version but I don't know how to do what I stated above. Can anyone lead me in the right direction or post some pseudocode?

[Albatross]

As far as I know, x86 assembly is upwards compatible with x86_64, so what are you trying to accomplish? Why do you need to "trick" a program into thinking that it's running on a different platform than it actually is?

-Albatross

[krankzinnig]

Its for my job, its because I need a certain app to not load a driver into mem. It has no 64bit capability so that would be the easiest way to me rather than hooking it.

[choisum]

what's the real world problem you are trying to solve?

[peter wan]

i understand what you want, an emulator right!! anything is possible if you try hard, just code hard and practice, practice, practice make a man perfect:) :) never give up on what you love to do most. there are free source code for tricking windows,you can get some ideas on how to trick windows, a good example is dosbox, its an open source project. and you know what i love your
idea. keep up the good work.
good luck:) :)

[Computergeek01]

Yeah peter wan anything is possible. It's possible for me to grab my ball point pen and rob the bank down the street this does not make it a good idea. The best way to fix this would be App-V as described in MS Application Compatability Toolkit, or a VM. All problems can eventually be solved by coding but NOT all problems should be.

[blackcoder41]

+1 Computergeek01