https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41312
Bug ID: 41312 Summary: Regedit on a 64 bit machine only displays the Wow6432Node structure Product: Wine Version: 1.9.18 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: registry Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: reinhold.hoffmann@hotmail.com Distribution: ---
Regedit on a Wine 64 bit machine behaves differently compared to Windows 64 bit. Comparing the Regedit view on Wine of a 32 bit vs. Wine on a 64 bit machine is different and confusing.
On a 64 bit machine Regedit only displays the Wow6432Node content in the regular HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE structure. This is confusing because Windows 64 bit displays the regular setup (that is related to 64 bit installation) and Wow6432Node separately. To view the non-32 bit structure in Wine related to KEY_WOW64_64KEY the system.reg needs to be manually accessed by an editor. The recommendation for Regedit is to display the same structure as on Windows 64.