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<big>'''Program Files'''</big> is a [[Folder (computing)|folder]] in [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating systems]] where [[application software|applications]] that are not part of the operating system are installed by default. Each program is put into its own subfolder where all of the related binary files can be stored. The name of this sub-folder can be chosen by the user, though [[installer]]s will often give a default directory name based on the name of the company that created it and the application itself.
 
On an unchanged US-English Windows installation this directory will be at <code>C:\Program Files</code>, though it can be moved; on non-US-English systems the folder name may be different. In order to keep track of where it is, there is an [[environment variable]] <code>ProgramFiles</code> that stores its location which is loaded from the [[Windows registry|registry]] value <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir</code> when the computer [[Booting|boots]].
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