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I started interactive (system user) cmd to use some commands and I got back Access denied error. I could do it other ways, but I'm interested in how is it possible, that superuser-like account simply cannot access some location. Isn't it called SYSTEM user, because it can go everywhere where system is?

EDIT: I'm trying to change ntldr to bootmgr. Both normal and admin version says Access denied, so I tried SYSTEM...

Oliver Salzburg
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In Windows 7 (and maybe even earlier) there's an account called TrustedInstaller, which has in some places higher privileges than the SYSTEM account (sorry, couldn't find the article I've read about it).

Another possibility is that somehow (probably manually) the permissions of the SYSTEM account removed from the object you're trying to get.

Anyway, what exactly are you trying to do that require SYSTEM privileges?

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Try one of these methods Command prompt as SYSTEM user (Windows 7) failing that as far as I know the actual admininstrator account itself(Not an account with admin rights, the default Windows admin account) has some extended rights http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/access-the-real-administrator-account-in-windows-7/

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psexec with the -s parameter can do the trick.

http://download.sysinternals.com/files/PSTools.zip

psexec -i -d -s c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
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