Where are files virtualized in Vista?

Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Jason

Under restricted user account on Vista, you may get write successful when writing to the program files folder. These files get virtualized to a different folder, so that old applications continue to run on Vista.

When you actually go to “Program Files” in a Windows Explorer and see there will be no files there.

The file was redirected to the user’s folder. The virtualized directory is a hidden folder, to expose this view go to Organize: Folder options, from a Windows Explorer and then on the view menu, click “Show Hidden Files and Folders”.

Then go to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\ and see that the files are created there. This is just a mitigation and not a feature of Vista.

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