WadeV1589 Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I just cannot work out what on earth is going on but after a fresh install when I try and install things like Visual Studio, Adobe Acrobat or MSN Messenger they default to "C:\Windows\Program Files (x86)".What I don't get is a search in the registry for "Program Files (x86)" comes up blank, so does "C:\Windows\Program Files", as well as "%\Prog" (incase it's using a short name). The ProgramFiles and ProgramFiles(x86) set variables are both correct (pointing to D:\Prog...) and the registry values at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion are both correct.Of course other installation programs work fine and detect the correct folder but a lot are not and I am totally stumped where they're getting this Windows\Program Files (x86) directory from.Anyone got any idea's at all what could be causing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weed Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 look at the registry entries hereHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionthis r the standard entries on a clean x64 installationCommonFilesDir, C:\Program Files(x86)\Common FilesCommonFilesDir (x86), C:\Program Files(x86)\Common FilesProgramFilesDir, C:\Program Files(x86)ProgramFilesDir (x86), C:\Program Files(x86)maybe something have changed here o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WadeV1589 Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 Well I think that fixed it. For some reason the keys there wereCommonFilesDir(x86) and ProgramFilesDir(x86)...see the tiny difference? Added 2 more keys with spaces in and so far all installations seem to be using the right directories.So thanks for that, one of those things I would've never ever noticed, a missing space!...The question is, how on earth did it happen on a fresh install? o.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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