Windows Vista "virtualises" the Program Files folder to work around those bloody irritating permissions issues caused by crappy programs. Also, most programs default to this location. However, my C ...

Starting with Windows Vista, the 64-bit versions of Windows have two Program Files folders. The regular Program Files folder holds 64-bit applications, while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32-bit ...

The two different program files are available only in the 64-bit operating system. The 32-bit operating system will have only a single program file folder. The main difference is that the program file ...