For example, after installing Debugging Tools for Windows (x86) on XP, it's found in Program Files but on Windows 7 it's found on Program Files (x86) which means there's no simple way to create a command file that can be distributed across all computers since none of the built-in environment variables consistently point to the 32-bit location ...
How about "you would like to locate a specific 32-bit program using a batch file which is shared between 32 and 64 bit computers". To do this, you would need a variable which evaluates to c:\program files on a 32-bit system or c:\program files (x86) on a 64-bit system. i.e. %ProgramW6432%
On Windows XP and 32-bit versions of Windows Vista this works fine. However, on x64 Windows Vista the code returns the x64 Program Files folder, whereas the application is installed in Program Files x86. Is there a way to programatically return the path to Program Files x86 without hard wiring "C:\Program Files (x86)"?
3 Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles should return the x86 folder for a 32-bit application and Program Files for a 64-bit application on 64-bit Windows. Check your project configuration settings.
How do I determine the full path of the folder that contains 32-bit programs using VBA? It's called "Program Files" on 32-bit Windows systems, but on 64-bit systems it's called "Program Files (x86)".
A configuration file needs position of another file, but that file is located in "C:\\Program Files", and the path with space in it is not recognized, Is there another way to specify the location
While createting the bat file, you can easly avoid the space. If you want to mentioned "program files "folder in batch file. Do following steps: 1. Type c: then press enter 2. cd program files 3. cd "choose your own folder name" then continue as you wish. This way you can create batch file and you can mention program files folder.
This variable points to Program Files directory, which stores all the installed program of Windows and others. The default on English-language systems is C:\Program Files. In 64-bit editions of Windows (XP, 2003, Vista), there are also %ProgramFiles (x86)% which defaults to C:\Program Files (x86) and %ProgramW6432% which defaults to C:\Program ...
In traditional cmd, we can use cd %programfiles% to switch directory which usually resolves to C:\\Program Files. In PowerShell, how can we go to a directory by a environment variable?
I'm trying to get into a file using cd Program Files (x86)\\Google\\google_appengine starting from the C:// folder. I tried googling around and I keep getting things along the lines of ${Env:
