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System32 is a folder, in the directory represented by the environment variable %windir%, that contains shared libraries and some applications (Control Panel, Command Prompt, etc.) necessary for Windows, and Windows applications, to run.

System32 is a folder, in the directory represented by the environment variable %windir%, that contains shared libraries and some applications (Control Panel, Command Prompt, etc.) necessary for Windows, and Windows applications, to run.

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ipconfig on windows 7 outside of system32

I'm working on making an incident response disk and I wanted to be able to run a copy of ipconfig off of external media such as a usb drive. This seems to work on my windows xp machine but when I copy ipconfig outside of system32 directory, it will…
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Createprocess() of "C:\\Windows\\System32\\OpenSSH\\ssh.exe" fails with error=2

On a Windows-10 machine, I am trying to run ssh.exe as a child process using createprocess, something like the below snippet: // Create the child process. bSuccess = CreateProcess(NULL, child_cmd, // command line NULL, //…
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C++ - How to read system files

I'm trying to find a file that starts with "silabs-cdc" in "C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository" DIR *dir; struct dirent *ent; if ((dir = opendir(path.c_str())) != NULL) { // FAILED while ((ent = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { …
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Cannot open self C:\Windows\system32\file.exe or archive C:\Windows\system32\file.pkg

I try using pyinstaller to convert *.py to *.exe and put them in system32 to try to make them a cmd command but I always get the error: Cannot open self C:\WINDOWS\system32\file.exe or archive C:\WINDOWS\system32\file.pkg I tried…
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Inno Setup: Copying files (to System32) takes long time

Our software project uses Inno Setup to roll it out to the customers. We found on some target computers it takes a long time for some DLLs to be copied to the system32 directory (about 2 minutes per file). The first intention was this files are…
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Check if another process has admin privileges

I have wrote a code to check is a process running on the same machine has administrator privileges or not. But it always returns false. Can you tell me what's wrong with it. private static bool HasAdminPrivileges(int processId) { var hProcess =…
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C++ Delete system32 files

I wanna write a C++ code to delete a file from system32 (hosts for example , a font ...) , how ? I use remove() and DeleteFile() DeleteFile("C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts") != 0) remove( "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" ) != 0 ) but…
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Check File.Exists in System32 with Sysnative and %windir% from 32-bit app C#

I have created a 32-bit application in C#. Because it's 32-bit, it cannot access 64-bit locations such as C:\Windows\System32. To access 64-bit locations, I understand that I need to instead use C:\Windows\Sysnative. I want to check if a file exists…
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finalize driver install via PnPUtil without restart on windows 10

I'm installing some audio drivers using PnPUtil to Windows 10: pnputil -a ./installaudiodriver.inf /install I run a batch file via powershell, installing 5 INFs. a couple of the INFs include files copy to %windir%\system32 folder. Problem: I…
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Why do MKDIR and DIR still work when XCOPY doesn't?

I recently encountered an error where XCOPY wouldn't work in a batch file returning: 'xcopy' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. Several other commands (ie: HELP) returned the same error, which I…
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tasklist vs. task manager memory

Hi and thanks in advance. What is the difference between the memory in the tasklist ( which you run in the cmd) and that GUI task manager. I noticed for browser processes, that the memory is off by a great deal. Which is more accurate of the…
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Testing for path in SysWOW64 returns true if path does not exist, but does exist in System32

NOTE: I am on a 64-bit system. I am having trouble finding articles regarding my current situation. I using PowerShell to test if a certain path exists: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop" and it returns true even though the Desktop…
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C# calling batch file failed to copy dll files to System32 folder

I have created a batch file that copies some dll files into System32 folder. I ran this batch from my program written in C# code: string path = @"ABC\install.bat"; ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo() { UseShellExecute =…
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Directory enumeration is missing csrss.exe and lsass.exe (c#)

I'm trying to enumerate files in C:\Windows\system32 and C:\Windows\SysWow64. But I'm missing files csrss.exe and lsass.exe and possibly more, I only checked these two files. Those files are there, I can see them in total commander and in explorer.…
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