diff --git a/libs/pbd/windows_special_dirs.cc b/libs/pbd/windows_special_dirs.cc
index 388dc7a67d..1ec516e00f 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/windows_special_dirs.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/windows_special_dirs.cc
@@ -71,5 +71,18 @@ PBD::windows_query_registry (const char *regkey, const char *regval, std::string
 		return true;
 	}
 
+#ifndef _WIN64
+	// If this is a 32-bit build (but we're running in Win64) the above
+	// code will only search Win32 registry keys. So if we got this far
+	// without finding anything, force Windows to search Win64 keys too
+	if (   (ERROR_SUCCESS == RegOpenKeyExA (root, regkey, 0, KEY_READ | KEY_WOW64_64KEY, &key))
+			&& (ERROR_SUCCESS == RegQueryValueExA (key, regval, 0, NULL, reinterpret_cast<LPBYTE>(tmp), &size))
+		 )
+	{
+		rv = Glib::locale_to_utf8 (tmp);
+		return true;
+	}
+#endif
+
 	return false;
 }