HOWTO: Running FotoWare applications in 64-bit Windows

Can I run FotoWare 6.0 applications in 64-bit versions of Windows?

The short and simple answer is yes, but you should read on for some additional remarks.

Since FotoWare 6.0 applications no longer rely on a physical hardware protection key (‘dongle’) that was only available with 32-bit Windows drivers, it is now possible to run all these applications in a 64-bit Windows environment. First of all it should be noted that since the FotoWare applications are themselves 32-bit they rely on the 32-bit subsystem that Microsoft includes in its 64-bit operating systems, known as WOW64 (Windows-32-on-Windows-64).

More information about Microsoft’s WOW subsystem can be found in this article by Microsoft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOW64

What’s more, it should be noted that you cannot mix 32-bit and 64-bit web applications on the same server. IIS (Internet Information Services) must be run in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode, and since FotoWeb 6.0 is a 32-bit application, 32-bit mode must be enabled in IIS. Thus IIS cannot simultaneously run 64-bit applications.

More about this here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/0aafb9a0-1b1c-4a39-ac9a-994adc902485.mspx?mfr=true