This happens to me a lot. Today, again. I clicked to download a patch for a program I have on my computer. I want to put the patch IN the program it is designed for. But an anoying popup tells me I have no right to do this and I have to put it in my User folder.
Why?
Last edited by Cissy46; 05 Nov 2009 at 22:08.
Vista and 7 are fussy about files being copied to C:.
You could try following the steps in this tutorial: Take Ownership Shortcut and then you can take ownership of the folder you're wanting to copy too and it *should* work.
Hello Cissy,
For security reasons, Windows 7 and Vista will only allow you to download file to your desktop or a user folder. Afterwards, you can move them to any location on your computer. You cannot download directly to the C:\Windows, C:\Program Files folders.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
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