I would like to know how I can display the location of Program Files (x86) in Command Prompt. I'm using Windows 7 64bit.
I've tried:
echo %programfiles(x86)% and echo %programfiles%.
Both of these output C:\Program Files
When I manually checked the registry,
HKLM/Software/microsoft/windows/currentversion,
the programfilesdir points to C:\Program Files and
HKLM/Software/WOW64/Microsoft/windows/currentversion,
the programfilesdir points to C:\Program Files (x86).
But, why am I always seeing C:\Program Files displayed?
On a 64-bit machine running in 64-bit mode:
echo %programfiles% ==> C:\Program Filesecho %programfiles(x86)% ==> C:\Program Files (x86)On a 64-bit machine running in 32-bit (WOW64) mode:
echo %programfiles% ==> C:\Program Files (x86)echo %programfiles(x86)% ==> C:\Program Files (x86)On a 32-bit machine running in 32-bit mode:
echo %programfiles% ==> C:\Program Filesecho %programfiles(x86)% ==> %programfiles(x86)%