Flash.ocx on windows 7 64-bit, windows application not working.

Hello,

I have programmed a windows application that uses flash player. In short, the windows application calls for the shockwave flash object component and use it to play ".SWF" files from a specific location. I used Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and C#.Net programming language. My current Windows 7 version is 32-bit and the program works fine.

However I had to port this application to several client PCs, using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit. All worked fine except for Windows 7 64-bit. The application refused to start as Windows is missing a component that is the activeX for Flash.

A bit of research showed that the problem is that Adobe have not provided support for Flash on 64-bit operation system.

My questions are:

1 - If the flash activeX works on a 32-bit browser under 64-bit system, why can't it work on a 32-bit application such as mine?

2 - Is there a way to run the Windows as a 32 bit system?

Any help is much appreciated,

Please tolerate me if this turned out to be the inappropriate forum to ask my questions,

Many thanks in advance,

ChocoPrince