The WOW64 emulator runs in user mode. It provides an interface between the 32-bit version of Ntdll.dll and the kernel of the processor, and it intercepts kernel calls. The WOW64 emulator consists of the following DLLs: Wow64.dll provides the core emulation infrastructure and the thunks for the Ntoskrnl.exe entry-point functions. Wow64Win.dll provides thunks for the Win32k.sys entry-point functions
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