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Question : When we open CoW local user location we can see that Application has created many folders. Among them we can see two folders with the same name APPV_ROOT & APPV_ROOTS.What is the difference?Any Special reasons why two folders are created? Answer : When a virtual application requires to make changes to the files or folders during runtime, it does not make changes in package store (%programdata%\App-V).Instead App-V creates Copy on Write (COW) locations and make changes over there during runtime, CoW support both roaming and non-roaming locations. Roaming CoW Location - %AppData%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\VFS Local CoW Location - %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\VFS In Local CoW location we can see two folders named APPV_ROOT & APPV_ROOTS created during runtime when shortcut makes changes to files/folders. The S signifies the restricted location when the virtual service requests the change as a different elevated user from the logged on users. The non-S location sto...