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Why can I not see winlogon.exe using Python on top of Cygwin?

This is the file I'm searching for on a Windows XP computer

C:WindowsSystem32winlogon.exe


I have displayed file extensions for all files, checked Show Hidden Files, checked Show Hidden System Files, and I can see the file using Explorer but cannot see the file with python. I cannot even see the file using:

os.system( 'dir C:/Windows/System32/winlogon.exe' )


I can see the file by using command prompt by running

dir C:WindowsSystem32winlogon.exe


Python's documentation: 'On some platforms, this function may return False if permission is not granted to execute os.stat() on the requested file, even if the path physically exists.'

I'd like to use the regular python libraries to be able to do this. I also tried open() command. How do I go about finding this file using Python?

Note: I'm running Python27 under Cygwin in Windows XP. This is because I'm in networking and it's easier to write scripts that run off of Linux, ssh into Windows' Cygwin sshd client, in order to run things.

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Why can I not see winlogon.exe using Python on top of Cygwin?