[sumtechguy]

Really depends on how windows put that curl.exe there in the first place. WinSxS would probably detect the damage and fix it. It is kind of how MS 'fixed' DLL hell. Windows really tries to stop that sort of thing. Also depending on how it was installed you may be able to get the windows installer subsystem that controls it to just uninstall it for you. Would just depend if it s part of another bundle or not. If you want to see how there are tons of vids on how people make stripped down windows installs.

Also if you are stuck with this another way to fix it is to just run the file out of a different directory and/or rename your new one. Windows load hierarchy is local folder first, then path (which usually has system32 in there somewhere).

But if you are dead set on your chmod method yes you could use calcs to do it. Add the executable permission to false. You prob would have to do that from a decently privlaged account. You probably could also do it from active directory using a group policy.

A better way is to open a phone support ticket with MS if they are the ones installing it. Going onto their web support boards is usually basically a dead end. If you bought your PC from an OEM you can call them too then they can open a ticket with MS.