Good luck with opening the subdirectories of C:\WindowsApps\. I ran Explorer as admin, gave myself R/W permissions, even recursively changed ownership of everything, followed all the online guides... Still denied access.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you make a bootable linux usb drive you can do whatever you want with all windows stupid files without even having to install linux.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those're probably containerised.

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sandboxed rather than containerised I think.

[–] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what was the difference for those of us who dont know, like andrew over here 😂

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn't allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it's only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

U can use proccess hacker to lauch for example total commander with SYSTEM privileges it's highest possible privilege in windows.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

it’s highest

its* ~~hightest~~ highest

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Highest*

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Whoops! Thanks. Corrected.

[–] picard@nrw.social 2 points 4 months ago

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