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Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\path\to\file.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1";

Microsoft Jet (Joint Engine Technology) 4.0 was designed as a general-purpose database engine for 32-bit environments.

with 200+ upvotes, where frantic developers realized that the Jet 4.0 engine was purely 32-bit and would never natively speak to a 64-bit operating system. Ancient MSDN forum posts