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What's important is your development machine. For example, if you're installing Installmate on a 32-bit computer then you need the 32-bit version of the software. I am running a 64-bit development system so I use the 64-bit version. Installmate will automatically install your software in the appropriate Program Files directory on the user's platform depending upon whether its a 32 or 64-bit program that you've created. You don't need to detect anything. This has never been a problem for us and since our software is consumer oriented (non-power users) I am sure that our end users run both kinds of systems. BTW, we've never had to change registry settings to get our runtime to install properly. BTW, I have no interest -- financial or otherwise -- in Tarma software and know none of the developers.

We have solved this problem using the InstallMate Builder by Tarma Software. Tarma has a utility called GiveAccess, which may be invoked during installation and transparently (i.e., no user intervention required) changes the permissions of selected files and folders. If you make your runtime data files world writeable it solves all of the permissions headaches mentioned above and will permit you to install the FM runtime in the Program Files directory. We distribute an FM runtime application to many hundreds of users and have had no problems installing and running it on Windows 7 or 8. Hope this helps.