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Why can't I edit a "Program Files" file on Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 202630126 views
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I'm having trouble editing this file on Windows 7: If I edit it in Cygwin (vi) or TextPad, those two programs see the changes, so it's getting written to disk somewhere. But if I "type" the file in a DOS cmd shell, it looks like the file hasn't been changed at all. One thing I noticed is that in th…

Error Output

C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8.7\share\cmake-2.8\Modules\FindJNI.cmake

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Fix for: Why can't I edit a "Program Files" file on Windows 7?

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Due to security features introduced with Windows Vista (UAC) any non-Administrator program that tries to write to protected locations such as "Program Files" will get their writes caught and redirected to an alternative "user friendly" location. The…

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