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Profile: journeyman
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Hi I was wondering if anyone new how (if at all possible) to create a new 32 bit folder for installation in xp64. Similar to the default program files (x86) folder.
Thanks in advance.

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There's nothing special about "Program Files (x86)". It's just a folder with the name "x86" in it. Just create yyour folder in the same way that you would create any other folder.

Profile: old hand
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Why would you want to? It would just create problems.

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Fairly obvious why you might want to. For example I have a C: and D: partition. D: is much large than C:, so I install all new programs there.


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