Hi, Regarding the latest releases of NI on the sister site.
What location does "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Native Instruments\Service Center\" refer to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\... or C:\Program Files\...?
I use windows 10 and the link opens "C:\Program Files (x86)\Native Instruments\Service Center\". Is it a proper place for NativeAccess.xml and not "C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\Service Center\"?

 

When you use the MigDocs.xml, MigApp.xml, and MigUser.xml XML files, you can use environment variables to identify folders that may be different on different computers. CsIDL (Constant Special Item ID List) values provide a way to identify folders that are frequently used by applications but may not have the same name or location on a particular computer. For example, the Documents folder may be "C:\Users\<Username>\My Documents" on one computer and "C:\Documents" and "Settings" on another computer. You can use the asterisk (*) in MigUser.xml, MigApp.xml, and MigDoc.xml files. However, you cannot use the asterisk (*) wildcard characters in the Config.xml file.

COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86)
Points to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files folder on 64-bit systems.

 

How about this then %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\ ? It points to C:\Program Files (x86)

 

On 64-bit operating systems, the ProgramW6432 environment variable points to c:\program files.
The full list for a 32-bit app on an English version of Windows:

• ProgramFiles => c:\program files (x86)
• ProgramFiles(x86) => c:\program files (x86)
• ProgramW6432 => c:\program files
• CommonProgramFiles => c:\program files (x86)\common files
• CommonProgramFiles(x86) => c:\program files (x86)\common files
• CommonProgramW6432 => c:\program files\common files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2539724/wow64-get-x64-commonprogramfiles-from-32-bit-process