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There are multiple approaches, <br />
1&gt; Save the installation path of your app in an environmental variable or registry and read that in your app to find the app path. This has to be done by the installer.<br />
2&gt; Use windows pre existing environmental variables (%programfiles(x86)% or programfiles(x86)):<br />
&nbsp;In your code, check if it is 64 bit machine or 32 bit machine, if it is 64 bit machine use the environmental variable %programfiles(x86)% instead of hard coding the path This shall be (C:\Program Files (x86))<br />
, else<br />
If it is 32 bit machine directly use %programfiles% environmental variable to form you app path.<br />
Remove the hard coding from your code and instead form path respect to this env variable value.
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The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.is64bitoperatingsystem.aspx" rel="ugc">Environment.Is64BitOperati<wbr />ngSystem </a> shall tell if OS is 64 bit in VB.NET<br />
if you want to find out if a process is 64 bit, you can use <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.is64bitprocess.aspx" rel="ugc">Environment.Is64BitProcess<wbr /></a>
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Hello Karrtik,<br />
Thanks for your comment,but can it be done in vb 6.0 without converting the existing code to vb.net.As your comment suggests vb.net.<br />
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Cheers
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can't you just not hardcode the path?
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A visual basic 6.0 program was written.<br />
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The primary problem is that I had the installation directory hard coded, which is fine for 32-bit Windows but now it will not install correctly on 64-bit Windows.<br />
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On 64-bit machines, it is installed into c:\program files (x86)&quot; which causes problems when the program looks for files that are hard coded to be found under &quot;c:\xxxx\&quot; &nbsp;<br />
Any suggestions.Thanks in advance<br />
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Cheers
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A visual basic 6.0 program was written.

The primary problem is that I had the installation directory hard coded, which is fine for 32-bit Windows but now it will not install correctly on 64-bit Windows.

On 64-bit machines, it is installed into c:\program files (x86)" which causes problems when the program looks for files that are hard coded to be found under "c:\xxxx\"  
Any suggestions.Thanks in advance

Cheers

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