On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Chaddaï Fouché <chaddai.fouche@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Tim Baumgartner
<baumgartner.tim@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> 2011/2/5 Patrick Lynch <kmandpjlynch@verizon.net>
>>
>> I did the dir c:\ and it shows both Program Files and Program Files (86)
>
> As I expected. Please have a look inside them. The one ending (x86) is
> definitely necessary to be there but I can imagine that the other one's
> existence is a simple accident...
> If so, then you should remove it. Perhaps you have installed a few apps into
> it. I suggest you consider to reinstall them to the other folder in order to
> avoid even more confusion later on.
>

Maybe you shouldn't be so hasty, from what I can see on my Windows 7,
both Program Files and its (x86) variant are real folders, one is for
64-bits applications while the other contains all the applications
that are still in 32 bits, I don't think it's a good idea to just
delete one...
 
Indeed, having both folders is normal for Windows 7, 64-bit systems. The only thing that is a bit confusing at times is that 32-bit processes will 'see' "Program Files (x86)" as just "Program Files" and will not 'see' "Program Files" (the real one) at all.