Hello,

What is difference between two folder?

My windows version is 8.1 and 64Bit. What does means x86?

• Edited by Arash_89 1 hour 56 minutes ago

In 64 bit OS, there will be two folders Program Files and Program Files (x86)

64 bit applications will get installed to Program Files folder, whereas 32 bit applications will get installed to Program Files (x86)

In-order to support 32 bit applications in 64 bit environment, windows have framed this kind of folder structure.

Any program installed in x64 bit mode will be found in the Program Files. If it is a 32-bit installer, it will be placed in program files (x86). Basically this is a feature to allow for backwards compatibility 

• Proposed as answer by jholden90 1 hour 51 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by Arash_89 1 hour 45 minutes ago