Permissions issue

From: abinkow <abinkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:06:01 -0800

I have a program that installs as a subfolder of the Program Files (x86)
folder. Inside the main folder of the application is a file, SpecDat.xxx.
The application, when run, needs to change this file.

If I run this application from an administrator account, it comes back with
a Error '53': File Not Found error. After some extended debugging by both me
and the author, we discovered it wasn't updating this file. When I tried to
update this file manually using Notepad, Notepad wouldn't save it either.

After more research, I ran the application by right-clicking and selecting
"run as an administrator". Now it works, even though I'm always running it
from an administrator account.

What's wrong? And what can I do to fix it?
.

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