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Can't everybody write to their own user's AppData folder?

• judge2020 7y ago
  Yes, but it's not granular per-application [i believe]. On an install script you can create folders in %localappdata% without needing elevated permissions meaning that %localappdata% and any files/folders you create are owned by the current user; unless a script does something with the file permissions, any other application can scan, access, and modify other applications (same goes for all of your user files but that's just par for the course for win32).