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Old 12-10-2017, 11:05 AM   #328
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Originally Posted by anacreon View Post
Can somebody tell me how I should write it? I'm a command window neophyte, and have no idea of the syntax (for example why the %localappdata% instead of \AppData\Local).
%localappdata% is supposed to be equivalent to AppData\Local within your user profile directory. If you have a command window open with your user directory as the current directory then the following should work:

Code:
ren AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\renderer-test.exe renderer-test.xxx
Alternatively you could navigate to this directory and rename the renderer-test.exe file using the Explorer GUI. (You would need to enable display of file name extensions and hidden items for this to work.)

I cannot explain why some users have trouble using %localappdata%. It was added to Windows starting with Vista.
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