Windows 7: Use VirtualStore technology as user for own benefit?

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Published on 2010-05-30T17:32:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 18:13 UTC
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I've researched a bit and came to the understanding that VirtualStore is part of the new UAC feature in Vista/W7 which is the file system part of the transparent data redirection and redirects write access to folders like program files to C:\User\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ in lack of applications respecting the LUA principles.

Now I'm interested if that kind of transparent redirection can also be used as a power to the user. Here's an example which comes to my mind:

I install any kind of software to e.g. D:\Whatever\ThisAndThisApp\ and I set up things that, after initial installation, any write access to this folder is transparently redirected to e.g. D:\MyOwnVirtualStore\Whatever\ThisAndThisApp\file_only_writable_here.txt.

Is this thinking too far or can I actually use that power of VirtualStore as a user on Windows 7? I'm using the Professional version of that matters.

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