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I recently purchased an HP Pavilion TX2000z -- I'm getting used to Vista and have an organizational question: Here are some of the possibly relevant specs about my computer: Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology Gold Edition TL-64 (2.2 GHz) 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 6150 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive My question may be related to Vista or may be more related to the setup that HP gave me, but I realized that some of my programs are in the folder C:\Program Files and most of the other programs install to and update in C:\Program Files (x86) There's some duplication between the folders, so I tried to delete some of the the duplicates such as the folders like windows sidebar and windows calender because they had the same creation dates and information in them, but one was in Program Files and the other was in Program Files (x86) -- despite the fact that I'm the only user of this computer, so I have administrator privileges and I said "Allow" Vista would not let me delete these folders. It just seems like a waste of space to have the same information in both folders. Also, Itunes has some of it's files and applications in Program Files (x86) but when I run it, it also places a few things in Program Files as well... So it seems that Vista uses both folders for some reason. My main questions are: Does anyone know why is there a Program Files and then a different Program Files (x86) folder?? And is there any way to consolidate these two folders a little bit better? Thank You!