Jon Bryan added the comment:
Thanks for the suggestions.
Since I can put the OEM-supplied DLL in another directory and everything works
just fine, I'm not going to spend any more time on it. I assume that it's
something to do with file permissions in Win7 that I don't have
New submission from Jon Bryan :
Running 32-bit Python in 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise. I am very much a Python
noob.
A .dll in c:\Windows\System32 that I need to access can't be found by
ctypes.WinDLL(). Upon further investigation I have found that the file, along
with many others, do