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Windows 8 Upgrade - Extended Attributes are Inconsistent Posted on   January 26, 2012 by   chentiangemalc One day while happily working away on my liquid cooled Windows Developer Preview beast I came across this error when launching regedit: Pretty quickly I found  every  program that tried to elevate to Administrative privileges had this problem. The UAC prompt to click Yes/No appeared very briefly then was rapidly replaced with this error message. Unfortunately this also applied to my beloved ProcMon. So what to do? First to find out to whom the dialog box belonged. Using Process Explorer ( http://live.sysinternals.com/ProcExp.exe ) and the feature to drag a target over a Windows to identify the process I found out the message box belonged to  cmd.exe  if run from Command Prompt, or  Explorer.exe  if launched from Explorer. As WinDbg doesn’t require admin privilege (for limited user mode debugging of non-elevated processes) it ...