Definitely easier to reinstall audacity for all user after creating any extra users you need. All this is tricky with windows 10 pro let alone with the home version. It can also involve taking ownership of the directory and the files within it. I’m afraid explaining how to change permissions on system folders in windows 10 is too complicated for an easy explanation here but it usually involves disabling inheritance and removing several existing groups while adding in new ones with more open access. Right click it and select open file location. You will see audacity listed as a running process. Open task manager ( right click in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and select task manager). If you are running audacity there is a relatively easy way to find out where it is installed. I did create a new User that is a “regular” user. So I will wait a day or two before uninstalling Audacity.

My wife is afraid for me to uninstall Audacity right now because laptop is working for the granddaughter to use the Widget microphone for her school flute grade (application SmartMusic, she said), and seems like every time we mess with that laptop things go very wrong.

As I am the administrator of both PC’s, I do not understand why I cannot list the folder contents. And I cannot alter the security access because everything in the change access panel is grayed out - same as with the laptop. On my main desktop PC, I may have installed some app from the Microsoft Store (perhaps LastPass) but I have not installed Audacity at all.Įven on my desktop PC I cannot even browse that folder. I don’t remember where I got Audacity (2.3.2) - I think it was a link from maybe a CNET email or maybe a weblink I found while trying to find a download for Audacity.

Audacity installer