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Windows tricks

This is a collection of Windows tricks that I encountered and wanted to archive here.

Program doesn't work for normal user's accounts

From http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/76656-45-users-access-installed-programs

“If your game or application works with admin accounts, but not with limited accounts, you can fix it to allow limited users to access the program files folder with “change” capability rather than “read” which is the default.

  C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:c

where “appfolder” is the folder where the application is installed.

If you wish to undo these changes, then run

  C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:r