Monday, April 11, 2016

ProgramFilesX86S and the other S folders

User VFS, the COW and the S folders.....

Standard users will read and write from the regular directory (with relaxed ACL’s) while elevated processes will read and write to the “S” version.

This is further explained here

http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2014/08/29/app-v-5-on-the-now-sometimes-immutable-package-cache-location.aspx