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Soon, If you install Google Chrome on 64-bit Windows, it will be installed into C:\Program Files directory instead of C:\Program Files (x86). Google is making the required changes to the Chrome installer for this to happen.
Google and Microsoft always recommend users to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit for Chrome and Windows for better security and new features. When it comes to Windows, 64-bit apps can’t run on 32-bit Windows.
Google started offering the 64-bit version of the browser from Chrome 37 onwards in 2014. The company announced then the stable version of Chrome with 64-bit support on Windows, will improve Chrome speed, security, and stability.
Microsoft has recently decided to stop releasing 32-bit Windows 10 to OEMs for distribution, this applies from Windows 10 2004 version onwards.
By this time, you should expect most using apps, processors, and Windows of 64-bit architecture.
In the case of Chrome and new Microsoft Edge, the old thing is still continuing. If you install a 64-bit version of the browser, it gets installed into Program Files (x86) directory, but not into Program Files.
The issue now being addressed by Google. Going forward 64-bit version of Chrome will be installed in C:\Program Files by default.
You should expect Microsoft to make changes to Edge Installer following Chrome’s. Microsoft Edge Community Manager confirmed they follow Chromium on this matter already.
Windows Chrome 64-bit prepared to install into Program Files
Soon, If you install Google Chrome on 64-bit Windows, it will be installed into C:\Program Files directory instead of C:\Program Files (x86). Google is making the required changes to the Chrome installer for this to happen. Google and Microsoft always recommend users to upgrade from 32-bit to...
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