Vista - UAC and external hard drives

Hi,

I have a program on an external USB hard drive. I want to run the program from that HD. It doesn't run properly because it needs to write files to it's folder, and it doesn't have permission to.

If I turn User Account Control off, then everything works just fine, however I don't want to turn it off. Is there anything else I can do to get the program to work properly with UAC turned on? Should the program be writing files to a specific folder?

I tried setting the permissions of the folder to 'full control', but all that seems to do is set the permissions on each individual file that currently exists in the folder.

This should help

User Account Control (UAC) - Elevate Privilege Level

Thanks for the reply... Yes, I had seen that article, and there's good information there.

However, I want the program to work on any account that has UAC enabled.

This doesn't seem possible. (?)

IOW, is there any way I can make my program work when run from an external HD on Vista, whether or not UAC is enabled on the customer's computer?

Have you tried the Run as Admin?

Try doing this with your program.

Bypass UAC

Uh someone thats a fan of UAC I spit on your pc lol