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Same application mentioned below:
The app creates temporary folders, and for that, it needs admin priviledges according to Microsoft wisdom.
But I also wanted to do functionality where I could drag files from the Explorer and drop them on the application. And lo and behold: There's a bug in Visual Studio: The drop events are not fired[^] if the program is run as an admin.
No need to make programming and debugging simple. huh??? Say "Thank you Microsoft!" 
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Jochen Arndt wrote: This is the lounge but it looks like you really need some help.
Thanks. All I really wanted was to let out some steam, but help is most certainly appreciated all the same! 
Jochen Arndt wrote: That is not true when creating the folders in the right place.
No, but my problem is that I cannot control where the temp folders are placed (it's also more appropriate to call them backup folders than temp folders actually) - They are created as subfolders in the location where the file opened by the user resides (well, it's really only me, but you never know in the future) - Thus it can be anywhere on the hard drives, removeable media and/or network.
Jochen Arndt wrote: It is not a VS bug. It is a Windows problem which came up when UAC
Interesting link. I'll have a closer look at that!
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Johnny J. wrote: hey are created as subfolders in the location where the file opened by the user resides (well, it's really only me, but you never know in the future)
Why not use %USER_TEMP%?
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Not an option. I'm sorry, I started out explaining poorly. The folder where the files to be processed resides may contain a lot of files. To avoid confusion, the processed files should be moved to a subdirectory when processed. And as said, these folders can be anywhere on the computer or network. So you see, it's not REALLY a temp folder. My bad that I said that from the beginning. Anyway, the subfolder should be in the work folder, I cannot start moving it somewhere completely different. That way the files may be mixed up and/or the user cannot find them.
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Some months ago[^], I wrote a small application that can perform limited editing (to my needs and specifications) to PDF files.
Version 1.0 is ready and I've run and used it on several occasions without trouble.
Suddenly, yesterday, Malwarebytes decided that it was a backdoor bot and insists on blocking it! A program I've written myself that I KNOW for certain doesn't contain malware?!?!?!?
Well, I though, not to worry, I'll just tell Malwarebytes to ignore it! YEAH, RIGHT! Malwarebytes doesn't have such a feature! At least not one that works.
You can restore items from quarantine, but you cannot whitelist them. So next time you start the program again, it's quarantined again!
At last I found out how to whitelist the exe file, and I can start it. But when Malwarebytes is scanning my system, it STILL insists that it has detected a threat!
I wonder what the heck it is that triggers it? There are no keyboard or system hooks in the program. That can normally set it off, but not here.
At first I thought it was because I keep the source code on Dropbox (cheap hosting  ) and launched the exe from there. But I have also installed it on the computer using a proper MSI installer, and that instance behaved exactly the same! 
I'm using 3rd party code, primarily Ghostscript and iText 7 (former iTextSharp), but they should be safe in my opinion, seeing that they are so widely used, and not likely to contain malware.
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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modified 28-Aug-18 2:56am.
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I'll have a look at that. Thanks a lot Peter!
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Any chance of a look at it?
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Not impossible, the hard part is that I need to get the time to write an article about it, though.
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Time...
I'm the same, always don't sem to have enough time... 
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Go forth and multiply with a big Elephanting F... they are taking the piss... only a Southerner would be that daft to pay that much for a Stout... 220 Quid plus to get sh*tfaced... not on my watch
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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That's still pretty cheap compared to a lot of other alcoholic beverages.
I pay €6 for a shot of who knows what goes in a Horny Cowboy (or whatever fun name they come up with).
That's €6,- for a single sip...
A cocktail is just a few sips more (it's mostly ice) and doesn't sell under €10,- a glass.
I don't drink beer, but I sure like shots and cocktails, guess I have an expensive taste
Usually, I just settle for an Ice Tea though (a regular one, not the (non-alcoholic) cocktail).
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A fool and his money...
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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As an old B.C. comic said, "I don't even know what I'm doing and I'm batting clean-up."
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Are these piss artists fine beer purveyors under the impression that beer is made of gold?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: he impression that beer is made of gold?
golden liquid similar to beer?  I don't want to taste that.. just in case
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I take it that you've never tasted the mass-market American "beers".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nope... and I am now not willing to do it.
M.D.V. 
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And that's even quite far from being the most expensive beer in the world.
Which probably is "End of history" by Brewdog.
But that price includes a small stuffed animal previously owned by Richard Gere.
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And I thought £45 for a 330ml bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin was excessive! 
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- Homer
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