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docs: extend description of drive mount access on windows

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#### Windows caveats #### Windows caveats
Note that drives created as Administrator are not visible by other Drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts,
accounts (including the account that was elevated as not even an account that was elevated to Administrator with the
Administrator). So if you start a Windows drive from an Administrative User Account Control (UAC) feature. A result of this is that if you mount
Command Prompt and then try to access the same drive from Explorer to a drive letter from a Command Prompt run as Administrator, and then try
(which does not run as Administrator), you will not be able to see the to access the same drive from Windows Explorer (which does not run as
new drive. Administrator), you will not be able to see the mounted drive.
The easiest way around this is to start the drive from a normal If you don't need to access the drive from applications running with
command prompt. It is also possible to start a drive as the SYSTEM administrative privileges, the easiest way around this is to always
account, which creates drives accessible for everyone on the system, create the mount from a non-elevated command prompt.
read more in the [install documentation](https://rclone.org/install/).
To make mapped drives available to the user account that created them
regardless if elevated or not, there is a special Windows setting called
[linked connections](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/mapped-drives-not-available-from-elevated-command#detail-to-configure-the-enablelinkedconnections-registry-entry)
that can be enabled.
It is also possible to make a drive mount available to everyone on the system,
by running the process creating it as the built-in SYSTEM account.
There are several ways to do this: One is to use the command-line
utility [PsExec](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec),
from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which has option |-s| to start
processes as the SYSTEM account. Another alternative is to run the mount
command from a Windows Scheduled Task, or a Windows Service, configured
to run as the SYSTEM account. A third alternative is to use the
[WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Service-Architecture)).
Note that when running rclone as another user, it will not use
the configuration file from your profile unless you tell it to
with the [|--config|](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-config-file) option.
Read more in the [install documentation](https://rclone.org/install/).
Note that mapping to a directory path, instead of a drive letter,
does not suffer from the same limitations.
### Limitations ### Limitations