Enable Drag & Drop when run as admin VB.NET

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Hi please can anyone tell me how to enable Drag & Drop when running app as admin in windows 7 ?
because it's only works without running it as admin.

Posted 12-Mar-12 17:27pm

Leecherman

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Mar-12 0:19am

Maybe, just the opposite?
--SA

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2012-03-12T17:57:00

Solution 1

There's nothing to do. I've never heard of the problem, nor can I duplicate it in any of my sandbox apps for Drag & Drop.

Of course, I don't run UAC and always run as an admin anyways.

But, 5 seconds in Google revealed this little blog post[^] and the method to fix the problem.

Basically, you cannot drag from a lower privilege process into one running as an admin for security reasons. The only work around is to disable UAC or prevent UAC prompting for credentials if the user account is in the administrators group, thereby forcing everything an admin user runs to launch with admin level priv's.

Posted 12-Mar-12 17:57pm

Dave Kreskowiak

Updated 12-Mar-12 18:03pm

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Leecherman 13-Mar-12 0:06am

the app required to run as admin in windows 7 ( to edit the registry ) also the UAC is enabled, so drag and drop is not working with me until i disabled the UAC

Dave Kreskowiak 13-Mar-12 0:09am

Yep. I just got done telling you that this behavior is by design because of security concerns. Your only work around is to disable UAC.

Leecherman 13-Mar-12 0:15am

thanks for your reply, but this program CCleaner running as admin and also it allow drag & drop files into it! ( CCleaner in options tab -> include )

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Mar-12 0:21am

What's so wonderful here? If the program is run with elevated privileges, it usually has more... well, privileges, not less.
--SA

Leecherman 13-Mar-12 19:45pm

So how can i make my app more privileges?

Dave Kreskowiak 13-Mar-12 21:39pm

I don't believe this. You can't seem to follow a simple converstation.

Your app is not the problem. You cannot give your app more priv's, nor does it need any, as it will ALWAYS run as the user who launched it and can never acquire more priv's than that user.

It's every other app you're draging and object FROM!! The only way to restore drag and drop is to elevate those apps to the same level as your app. THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS TO TURN OFF UAC!!

This is my LAST post on this issue. You've been told REPEATEDLY what you have to do. THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM!

Good Luck and have a nice life.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Mar-12 3:50am

Dave, I just found this question in my mail notifications and squeezed my muscles imagining difficult explanations. Thank you for doing it for me!
--SA

Focuscar 6-Apr-14 20:04pm

How can you expect a person to understand by insulting him. (Questions are asked when we "don't" understand).
Quote: "There is NO OTHER SOLUTION", Yet there is one.

Dave Kreskowiak 6-Apr-14 22:16pm

Considering this question is two years old, and you don't know the history of what was going on at the time, you've made a rather bold, and ignorant, statement. Insulting someone?? No. Berating them for not listening, repeatedly, oh yes.

Now, since you seem so concerned about there being another solution and resolving this for posterity (future Google searches), how about posting the answer??

Focuscar 7-Apr-14 9:46am

Considering that everyone is not as intelligent as you, not listening was your perception of not understanding, and moreover posterity was made for you.

Dave Kreskowiak 7-Apr-14 9:53am

My bad. I just saw you did post the answer below.

Still, what you posted is a link to an answer that is only 1 year old. So, I will still stand by my answer that I posted 2 years ago.

Dave Kreskowiak 13-Mar-12 14:40pm

Are you deaf?? Again, I just told you that this behavior is BY DESIGN. With UAC running, you CAN NOT drag an item from a normal user process to one that is running elevated! The only way around this is to disable UAC!

That means you can NOT drag files from Explorer (because it's running as the normal user account) to your app, by design!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Mar-12 4:00am

Wow! So much drama around a "requirement" for such a lousy behavior!

Dave, you are right here, but don't you think this is kind of the consequence of your principle to avoid addressing the rationale of OP's goals? But see, I could just say "Why doing this? I think drag-n-drop is just for loosers. You can keep breaking your teeth on this problem as much as you want, but I'm not really interested to waste any more time on something which makes no real sense, sorry". That's is; and let them down-vote this as much as they want...

Maybe, this is not 100% serious, but I think it may make certain sense, huh?
--SA

Dave Kreskowiak 14-Mar-12 11:29am

I'm done with one as I've already told him what the only solution was 3 times. If he want to be a brick wall, fine. I don't have to sit hear and talk to it any longer.

Thanks!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Mar-12 12:52pm

Sure, fair enough.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Mar-12 4:03am

I up-voted it by 5, by the way...
--SA

Focuscar · Answer 2 · 2014-04-06T13:56:00

Solution 3

A solution exists: digital post[^]

Posted 6-Apr-14 13:56pm

Focuscar

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[no name] 6-Apr-14 20:06pm

Do you really think that the OP is still waiting after 2 years?

Focuscar 6-Apr-14 20:09pm

Yet this is a future reference for anyone using google.

[no name] 6-Apr-14 20:24pm

And yet has been asked and answered 50 million times elsewhere. Pointing people at postings that were not even written at the time of the posting. If you really wanted to be helpful, I would think that you would point them to a real answer instead of posting just to boost your rep.

Focuscar 7-Apr-14 9:38am

And yet a simple pinpoint reference shall always be an offence for arrogant people, and as such boosting a reputation of 0 was clearly my intention, especially for people living dependent on reputation stats.