Re: Permissions issue
- From: "Sam Hobbs" <Gateremovethis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:14:14 -0800
You could change the permissions for the one file. That is not the ideal solution and you should undo that as soon as the developer has fixed the problem. Don't change permissions in situations you are not sure why you are doing it. Be organized about it in the sense that you keep track of things such as this. Don't change permissions for anything more than you really need to.
There was in the past a MSDN forum for developers of applications in Vista but I am not sure where it is now. There would certainly be many previous answers there to your specific problem. The following has multiple forums that might be relevant and that would already have previous answers. These forums are for the developers of the software so you can suggest they use the following.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windev
Note that Microsoft's use of "social" in that address is very confusing; there are no social forums there. Microsoft apparently needs to confuse us and that is obviously one of many ways they do that.
"abinkow" <abinkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:643CB56E-1D34-49C7-872F-D9255A54CFAD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I figured that this was the problem -- and thanks -- but it isn't practical
at this time. While the program is a beta test, it has been distributed to
over 100 users and cannot be changed.
How can I provide access to this program to administrator users, without
having to "run as administrator?
"Malke" wrote:
abinkow wrote:
> 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?
The file is in a protected area of the operating system. The author of the
software needs to learn to write for Vista. He should put the file that
needs to be updated in a different place such as in a folder in the
individual user account.
Malke
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