Bypass UAC For An Application that reads and writes to an external file


I have a program that access an external .txt file to read its content, interpret it, make changes, and then edit that txt file upon application termination. Because of this, it forces me to run this application as the administrator. I have the MS App Compatibility Toolkit installed and I tried editing some of the application settings and now it runs with every user without prompt, but it only edits the file when I am using an admin account.

I need a way to reconfigure this file so that it works for any user on any computer the file gets moved to without the necessity of an administrator approval.

Thanks!



Re: Bypass UAC For An Application that reads and writes....

Have you enabled full Read/Write access to the directory the program runs in ? .... I have a legacy program that failed in a similar way, but works fine after I modifed the access rights for "everone" for the directory (\Program Files\ApName) the it resides in.

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