How to check location of 32bit Program FIles folder in windows .bat script

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I want to write .bat script which works under all flavours of Windows, no matter if 32 or 64 bit.

In this script I want to run some file.exe. That file is located in C:\Program Files\ under 32-bit systems or C:\Program FIles (x86)\ under x64 systems. I can write:

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\file.exe" under 64bit systems or "%ProgramFiles%\file.exe" under 32bit systems but I want to make the script universal. Is there any way of determining that path universally?

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