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I am a noob, could someone please write some code to edit the Windows Protected Resource List? I really don't understand if there is a list of files that Windows Protects so they can't be changed. I would like to be able to turn this off for ever!
John
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Mar-12 14:59pm    
Why?!
Member 3997606 19-Mar-12 21:11pm    
Is there a Utility that does this? John

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Bad idea! Resources are protected to protect your work, not prevent you from doing any work. You just need to learn how to work with the files correctly.

And I don't think you really need "Protected Resource List". You might need to change access to certain directories; and this is a pure administrative task you can do under administrative account.

Perhaps, what you really need to "turn off" the Windows 7 protection is so called "XP mode". Please see this Microsoft article:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7[^].

However, I do not recommend doing so. If you use right applications and write your own application just accurately, they will all work for you under Windows 7. Even if those applications were not designed to run under Windows 7 but were written just accurately, without violations of good coding practices, such as using hard-coded path names or something like that.

--SA
 
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