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Home directory of the LocalSystem account in Windows Server 2012

Quite a few applications that I had encountered throughout my career provide the option to look for custom configurations inside the home directory of user accounts that had started them. One such example is the Git command, which looks for the private key to communicate with a GitHub repository inside a .ssh directory located inside the home directory of the user that runs it.

This post documents the home directory of the LocalSystem account in my Windows Server 2012.