faffing win7 failed

dr4g0nf1y · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:14

I've just noticed all my folders and stuff have been installed to program files (x86) .

seriously if it's a 64bit os you'd expect everything to be stored in the correct folder!

didn't have this issue with the Release Client! :mad:

alex24 · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:15

I don't understand the problem here.

dr4g0nf1y · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:19

x86 is the 32bit os folder and your standard folder is for your 64bit based programs, by default windows has stuck everything in the wrong folders

jas72 · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:20

What you mean your 32 bit software is being placed in the X86 folder?

iviv · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:23

dr4g0nf1y said:
I've just noticed all my folders and stuff have been installed to program files (x86) .

seriously if it's a 64bit os you'd expect everything to be stored in the correct folder!

didn't have this issue with the Release Client!

That's where its supposed to be installed!

dr4g0nf1y · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:25

that's not right.

you're saying that 64bit software (such as steam) should be installed in the x86 folder?

alex24 · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:26

This is normal behaviour. If you like, you can change the folder you install things to in most setup programs. True 64-bit software, and typically preinstalled windows software resides in program files.

Neolink · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:33

dr4g0nf1y said:
that's not right.

you're saying that 64bit software (such as steam) should be installed in the x86 folder?

Steam is a 32bit program.

And vista64 did this also, I don't understand where you are getting at regarding the RC. I don't see anything abnormal about x64 programs going automatically to program files, and x32 programs going automatically to program files (x86), it's just always been that way on 64bit windows

dr4g0nf1y · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:43

Neolink said:
I don't see anything abnormal about x64 programs going automatically to program files, and x32 programs going automatically to program files (x86), it's just always been that way on 64bit windows

dr4g0nf1y said:
x86 is the 32bit os folder and your standard folder is for your 64bit based programs, by default windows has stuck everything in the wrong folders

how am I not making sense, give me some credit, I know where files should go.

What I am saying is that windows has stuck all my 64bit programs in the 32bit (x86) folder, and vice versa

Is that normal behaviour?

alex24 · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:45

Which 64-bit programs?

You most likely had the option to choose where they were installed, why not change it then?

And yes, it is, and always has been, normal behaviour.

Neolink · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:46

Can you name these programs then? Steam, like I said, is not 64 bit. If you are making the same mistake with the rest of them then the problem is obvious.

Can't quite tell if you are trolling or not, so I won't be replying again, good luck

bledd · 5 Nov 2009 at 15:47

Steam isn't 64bit

I can't see what you're getting at here.

Install 64bit 7-zip and see where that goes