Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Vista Program Files Cache when using User Account Control (UAC)

If you're running Vista (probably windows 7 as well) and have user account control turned on, then programs are not permitted to modify files under C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86).

If they do so, the modified files appear instead at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)

This drove me a bit nuts as I was using OpenVPN and changing the password on my .key file, I then copied it to another machine and it didn't have the correct password. Aha, I just had to find the file in the VirtualStore cache.