Different behavior of %ProgramFiles% in TC 7.56a and 8.0 ß9

[MarianD]

Environmental variable "ProgramFiles" in the user item in the Start menu behaves differently in TC 7.56a and TC 8.0 ß9 (64-bit) in 64-bit Windows.

Excerpt from wincmd.ini:

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[user]
menu1=Program Files (x86)
cmd1=cd %ProgramFiles%

In the TC 7.56a using this command changes the directory to "C:\Program Files (x86)" in accordance with the (default) setting of the environmental variable ProgramFiles in the 64-bit Windows 7.

In the TC 8.0 ß9 the same command changes the directory to "C:\Program Files".

[karlchen]

Hello, MarianD.

Total Commander 7.56a is a 32-bit application. On Windows 64-bit, %programfiles% for a 32-bit application gets resolved as "C:\Program Files (x86)".
Total Commander 8.0ß9 64-bit is a 64-bit application. On Windows 64-bit, %programfiles% for a 64-bit application gets resolved as "C:\Program Files". (On 32-bit Windows, Total Commander 8.0ß9 64-bit cannot be executed a all.)
Total Commander 8.0ß9 32-bit is a 32-bit application. Therefore, on Windows 64-bit, it will resolve %programfiles% as "C:\Program Files (x86)", just like Total Commander 7.56a does.

So no bug involved. Everything works as designed by Microsoft (Windows) and by Christian Ghisler (Total Commander).

Kind regards,
Karl

[Flint]

MarianD
It does not behave differently, it does exactly what it should do: goes to the location stored in the variable %ProgramFiles%. It's Windows that puts different values into this variable for 32- and 64-bit applications. If you try 32-bit version of TC8 you will see that it jumps into Program Files (x86), just like TC 7.56a.

<Added>
Typing too slow. Oh well…

[Sob]

32-bit:

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ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files

64-bit:

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ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files

So if you really need to always go to Program Files with or without (x86), no matter if you use 32-bit or 64-bit TC, there's a way.

[MarianD]

karichen & Flint & Sob

Thank you for your explaining, I apologize.

MarianD

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