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POWhy does my application allow me to save files to the Windows and System32 folders in Vista?
 

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    <p>I have an application written in Delphi 7 which does not require an admin privilages to run. </p> <p>For some reason I am able to save files to c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 from within the application even though the application <b>has not requested UAC elevation</b>. I am logged in as an admin with <b>UAC turned on</b> and I haven't changed any of the default UAC settings. The files actually show up under Windows Explorer as well. I am not using the 'Run as Administrator' option.</p> <p>If I try to do the same thing using WordPad under the same profile I get an error as expected.</p> <p>Any ideas what is going on?</p> <p>Th application is using Ole Structured Storage to save and includes the following manifest, if that helps.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt; &lt;assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"&gt; &lt;assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="DelphiApplication" version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*"/&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;dependentAssembly&gt; &lt;assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" processorArchitecture="*"/&gt; &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"&gt; &lt;security&gt; &lt;requestedPrivileges&gt; &lt;requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/&gt; &lt;/requestedPrivileges&gt; &lt;/security&gt; &lt;/trustInfo&gt; &lt;/assembly&gt; </code></pre> <p>Edit: To be clear my application does not save anything to these locations by default. I am choosing these locations via the standard file save dialog. </p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>I have found out why my application was being treated as legacy despite including the above manifest. It turns out a 2nd manifest was also being included which did not have the 'trustInfo' section. I have removed this 2nd manifest and all is well now.</p> <p>Thanks for all the help</p>
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