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How to access network shares from an elevated process in Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 202617283 views
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With UAC set to the Default level, it is not possible in Windows 7 to access mapped network folders from an administrative command prompt or any other elevated process. This leads to unwanted errors, e.g. when trying to import a *.reg file that is located on a network share. Double-clicking results…

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Fix for: How to access network shares from an elevated process in Windows 7?

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It's not supported, but you can set EnableLinkedConnections in the registry to achieve this. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624 Although Microsoft states that this 'may make your system unsafe', we are still waiting for details on this here:…

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