>>Hi,
>>
>>I noticed that when installing VS 2005 on a Win 7 computer, the installer wants to place it in the folder
>>C:\Program Files (x86)\. On XP this VS was installed in C:\Program Files\. Is (x86) to indicate that this version of VS was developed for 32 bit OS? Should I remove the (x86) from the folder name (I kind of don't like to have parenthesis in the folder name).
>>
>>TIA.
>
>Are you running 64 bit Windows 7?
>
>64 bit version differentiates applications that run in 32bit mode from native 64bit apps.(x86) is the folder for 32bit apps.
Yes, my Windows 7 is 64 bit. But I still hope that my VS 2005 will be working on this Windows 7 PC. Thank you.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
