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Windows 7 access denied to executables.. by what?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20268761 views
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Ever since I started using Windows 7 this problem has been bothering me. From time to time I see similar questions popping up on misc forums, but never did I see an answer. Here are two scenarios that nearly always reproduce it: The explorer way With explorer, navigate to a directory containing at …

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Fix for: Windows 7 access denied to executables.. by what?

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I think the issue you are seeing is related to the thumbs.db that Windows explorer creates. Try to disable this, reboot and see if the problem reproduces. To disable thumbs.db open Group Policy editor (gpedit.msc), go to User Configuration -Control …

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