I am writing an application where I need to copy some data files into the user's application folder, which is located in ProgramFiles. I know that data should not be stored here, but this is a third party application and that is where they have put them! I am just adding some extra functionality and need to update these files. When I try to copy files into this location the system naturally protests. Is there any way to force acceptance of copying into ProgramFiles?
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Writing to Program Files folders
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What doi you mean by "the system naturally protests"? Do you get an error? If so, what's the error?
"copying into ProgramFiles" - any sample of code of what you are doing?
What's the Operating Sysytem that you are using?
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Thanks Andrzejek.
When I said that the system protests I was being lazy! I actually get error message #5 "Access to the path [filename] is denied". I am using Filecopy(Source, Destination).
I am developing with VB2010 on Windows7, but the application is running on all OSs from XP upwards. I am assuming that this is something to do with UAC and/or elevated permissions(?), but I have no idea how to circumvent these rerstrictions.
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