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AppData location when running under System user account

As it took far too much Googling to find this, if you need to access the AppData folder for the System account, go here:

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local I hit this because we needed to clear the NuGet package cache for a TeamCity build agent which was running as a service under the System account.

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Cisco VPN Client for Windows 8

There isn’t currently a version of Cisco’s VPN client that supports Windows 8, and after installation I received an error message complaining that the “VPN Client failed to enable virtual adapter.”.

Fortunately, there is a way to get this “legacy” VPN client to work, with a small registry change:

  • Open up the registry editor by typing regedit in Run prompt
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