Access denied for an MFC app in Win7

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Hi all,

My MFC application will try to save information to a file in c:/Program files/<myappname> folder. This works fine in XP, but facing access denied message in Win-7. How can i fix this.

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Posted 18-Oct-11 3:57am

codeprojectvijayanand

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Chuck O'Toole · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-18T04:07:00

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C:\Program Files and all folders below that have been restricted to Administrator access since Windows Vista.

You'll have to pick a different place or convince your users to let you run as Administrator.

Posted 18-Oct-11 4:07am

Chuck O'Toole

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codeprojectvijayanand 18-Oct-11 10:24am

Thank you.

Albert Holguin 18-Oct-11 11:08am

By the way, you can have your app automatically try to run as administrator... it should just prompt the user for permission... Although if the user doesn't have admin privileges it may be a problem.

Albert Holguin 18-Oct-11 10:53am

Yep... that's a pain in the butt since Vista... +5