Programmes folder instead of Program Files under Windows 7 32-bit

[riahi]

[FONT=&quot]Hello,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]My OS is Windows 7 32 bit. When I display the contents of C: using Windows Explorer, I find the programmes and ProgramData folders (Program Files does not exist), but when I display the contents of C: in command lines I find Program Files[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]-When I directly enter the path c:\program files in the explorer, it displays the path c:\programs and its contents.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]- Maybe is it an alias system!?[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]-All my applications are installed in c:\programmes[/FONT]

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum. In explorer have you got show hidden and system files?

 

[iko22]

Welcome to the forum. In explorer have you got show hidden and system files?

Yes he/she has, because I can see ProgramData, which is usually a hidden file.

 

[iko22]

[FONT=&quot]
[FONT=&quot]- Maybe is it an alias system!?[/FONT]
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Hello riahi,

you can tell if it is a symbolic link by opening a cmd.exe window and typing dir /a in the C: root folder.

 

[riahi]

dir /a

hello,
please see the attached screenshot

 

[wither 2]

To provide more details to the observation made by samuria-

In Windows Explorer, find Local Drive C: and highlight it.

Go to Organize and click on the down arrow.

Open Folder and Search Options.

In the View tab, click on the circle next to Show hidden file and folders.

Click on OK.

Apply the change to all subfolders.

Do you now see Program Files when you click on the Local C: drive in Windows Explorer?

 

[LMiller7]

This kind of thing is common in non English systems. In such systems many folders have 2 names, the real name as used in the file system and by applications and a localized name in the local language that is displayed in Windows Explorer. The localized name is stored in the desktop.ini file in the folder. If there is no localized name the real name is displayed. The localized name for "Program Files" is "[FONT=&quot]Programmes". Cmd.exe displays only the real folder name.
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[iko22]

I also found this article program files folder different languages that may be of interest here.

- (The article also talks about a Program Files (x86) folder, which does not exist on your system, because your Edition of Windows is not 64-bit.)

To recap then, the Program Files folder exists on English implementations of Windows. However, if you install Windows under the French local, then this same folder is called Programmes. In Spanish it would be called Archivos de programa, but the same folder would also be called Programmes in German.

To confirm these findings, open cmd.exe and type

cd "\program files"
dir/w

And confirm if the displayed folders in Program Files directory match the folders seen in Windows Explorer Programmes directory.

 

[riahi]

"Programmes" folder = "Program Files"

[FONT=&quot]Hello,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
As he already said LMiller7, there is only one folder containing programs (Program Files) but according to the installation language of Windows 7 (it's French in my case), this folder is renamed in this language for the sake of consistency (Programmes, in French) because of a file (hidden) desktop.ini which is in this folder. It does not change his address but just his name. [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I found this in the desktop.ini file contained in the folder c:\programmes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][.ShellClassInfo][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21781[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the end, everything is normal. Worries for nothing.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Thank you for being interested in my “problem”[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[riahi]

[FONT=&quot]Yes I confirm.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

[riahi]

[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]As they already said LMiller7 and iko22, there is only one folder containing programs (Program Files) but according to the installation language of Windows 7 (it's French in my case), this folder is renamed in this language for the sake of consistency (Programmes, in French) [/FONT]because of a file (hidden) desktop.ini [FONT=&quot] which is in this folder. It does not change his address but just his name.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I found this in the desktop.ini file contained in the folder c:\programmes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][.ShellClassInfo][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21781[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the end, everything is normal. Worries for nothing.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Thank you for being interested in my “problem”[/FONT]