Error while writing to file in Vista C drive

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Hello Friends,

I need to write to a file which exists in C:\Program files (X86) in vista. I am using C# to write to that file programatically, but I am not able to do that. Please suggest a solution.

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Jagjot

Posted 5-Apr-11 2:43am

Jagjot Singh

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Solution 2

You need to probably change some settings in the User Account Control.

Posted 5-Apr-11 3:02am

Abhinav S

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Kim Togo 5-Apr-11 9:04am

Bad idea. UAC is there for a reason. Disable it, is not the way to go.

Toli Cuturicu 5-Apr-11 13:12pm

Voted 5 to counter an idiot's 1.

Solution 1

You will probably have to run your application as an administrator and/or programmatically demand FileIOPermission that lets you write there.

Have a look at these:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432329/how-do-i-deploy-applications-in-run-as-administrator-mode[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.permissions.fileiopermission.aspx[^]

Good luck!

Posted 5-Apr-11 2:53am

Johnny J.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-05T05:21:00

You shouldn't be writing anything at all under Program Files. Every folder under that location is ReadOnly to normal Users. You have to pick a more appropriate location to write the data you want.

If you're looking at sharing data between users of the application on the same machine, then you have to write it to something under the path returned by System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData).