Can not create/write/delete file on root of c: drive

[Brad S. J. Mercer]

I have a customer that would like to use the Data Tracking wizard in Excel in
Office 2007. They installed the add-in but it only works correctly under
the Administrator account. When I ran Process Montor I discovered that the
problem is occuring because the wizard is trying to create/write/delete a
file in the root of the c: drive. Vista does not like this and neither does
Windows 2003 Terminal server.

Does any one know how to get either Vista or Terminal server to allow a user
(not administrator) to create a file on the root of c:?

I tried assigning file permissions to the root of c: for the user but his
does not work. There is a higher authority working somewhere that is
overriding everything.

Any help is appreciated.

 

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Re: Can not create/write/delete file on root of c: drive


Brad S. J. Mercer;523247 Wrote:
> I have a customer that would like to use the Data Tracking wizard in
> Excel in
> Office 2007. They installed the add-in but it only works correctly
> under
> the Administrator account. When I ran Process Montor I discovered that
> the
> problem is occuring because the wizard is trying to create/write/delete
> a
> file in the root of the c: drive. Vista does not like this and neither
> does
> Windows 2003 Terminal server.
>
> Does any one know how to get either Vista or Terminal server to allow a
> user
> (not administrator) to create a file on the root of c:?
>
> I tried assigning file permissions to the root of c: for the user but
> his
> does not work. There is a higher authority working somewhere that is
> overriding everything.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Brad,

You might try turning off UAC for that account to see if it will help.
This tutorial will show you how if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html

Shawn


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