I knew there had to be a way for a 32-bit application to access the 64-bit registry on a 64-bit system, and I finally found it. Don't ask me what I think of the way Live Search works on the MSDN site, ...

Intel, perhaps in reaction to AMD’s release of the 32/64-bit Opteron processor, said it plans to run 32-bit applications faster on future Itanium processors and ease users’ migration to the 64-bit ...