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Debug GetEnvironmentVariable("ProgramFiles(x86)")
Debug GetEnvironmentVariable("ProgramFiles")

both give c:\program files (x86) back.

Also

Debug GetEnvironmentVariable("Commonprogramfiles(x86)")
Debug GetEnvironmentVariable("commonprogramfiles")

both C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files

Checked in cmdprompt: Values are different. So why not in PB?

ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files

Testing with Windows 10 (don't have a win8 machine at hand at the moment), with PB 5.31 X86

That is an Windows characteristic for x86 programs. Try the x64 Compiler and it should work...

No PB bug.

The %ProgramFiles% itself depends on whether the process requesting the environment variable is itself 32-bit or 64-bit (this is caused by Windows-on-Windows 64-bit redirection).

32bit CMD.exe

• ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
  ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files (x86)
  ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
  ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files

64bit CMD.EXE

• ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
  ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
  ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
  ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files

Thank you. That's clear and logical. Is there any (purebasic) way around it, expect for using the 64bit purebasic, or runprogram(Getenvironmentvariable("comspec"),"/c echo %programfiles(x86)% > sometext.txt") (something like that)and parsing that output? The program needs to run on both 32 and 64 bit platforms, but I need to be able to access those directories.. And I don't want to hardcode them...

I don't think that runprogram is gonna work either, right?