Launching Shell Links (LNKs) from WOW64

Question

Our 32-Bit application launches Windows LNK files (Shell Links) via ShellExecute. When it tries to \"launch\" a link to a 64-Bit binary (such as the \"Internet Explorer (64-

Answer 1

You could spawn an explorer.exe process which calls on the LNK.

Is there a particular reason you can't compile your program as a 64bit application?