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Copy Notepad.exe from system folder to desktop and run it

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Mar 15, 20265014 views
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Problem

on some Windows 7 machine, can launch from desktop but lots of Windows 7 machine, no matter x86 or x64, it cannot start. no error no warning, just silently quit, like you never click on it before. Is there any policy or system setting to block this? I thought it is quite common to copy to anyplace …

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notepad.exe

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Fix for: Copy Notepad.exe from system folder to desktop and run it

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While you probably shouldn't copy the file around, when you do you need to also copy the mui files from to the same relative location (where is the language code such as ).

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