Hi,

cn indicated he/she was aware of the dangers of doing this, I was merely
providing the means. Part of the security design is to keep a user's files
within their profile, but a percentage of users will always want to do
something different, even if it poses a danger to them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]

"David J. Craig" <Dave@yoshimuni.com> wrote in message
news:eZEdW$W9GHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Very bad idea. Only properly credentialed admins should be creating
> directories or files in the root directory. You can overwrite boot files
> with viral code if anyone can do it. Look at most of the various forms of
> Unix/Linux, and mainframe OSes. The user can create a file if needed by
> running his program with a manifest that requires it to have admin rights,
> but only for the few that need it. I suspect there is an API for a
> program to ask UAC to prompt for rights for the duration of that need, but
> most of the time it should remain a standard user.
>
> P.S. I can think of no valid reason for Microsoft Word to have admin
> rights to edit/create documents. With all the exploits in Office, why
> would you let it?
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OAepvuW9GHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> Change permissions for the Users group, giving them full control.
>>
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>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>>
>> "cn" <cnuse********.com> wrote in message
>> news:71AD9597-090F-4EE0-9BAA-DF4FD6A16D62@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> How can I save my word files on root of vista system drive while keeping
>>> UAC?[/color]
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>
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