Am I having a senior moment (aka a Glenn moment)? I swear I have been using %programfiles% in my scripts correctly and now it seems that it is displaying the wrong value. When I use %programfiles% now on a 64bit windows, it displays the x86 variant. I've tried changing WOW64FileRedirection to on and off, and I seem to remember Ruud saying the WOW64FileRedirection does not effect the program files directory. I tried an older version of Kix and its doing it too... so maybe I've been off all this time... wth?
Registered: 2002-05-13
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Loc: STRASBOURG, France
hello,
you can read directly values in the registry look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion and read value "ProgramFilesDir" or "ProgramFilesDir (x86)"
take care to WOW64AlternateRegView option. Be sure to read the real key not this redirect in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
function ProgramFiles()
dim $Prev
$Prev=setoption("WOW64AlternateRegView","On")
$ProgramFiles=readvalue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion","ProgramFilesDir")
$Prev=setoption("WOW64AlternateRegView",$Prev)
endfunction
Thanks for the input tho, if I had been looking for it, you can bet we would have been struggling to find it.
