On Mon 04 Jul 2022 at 23:03:14 (+0100), Paul Hodges wrote: > From: Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> > > On 2022-07-04 1:50 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I see from searching that the issue is with elevated and non elevated > > > permissions. > > > > Where do you see this? Drag-and-drop is a simple feature of the Windows > > shell that should require no special permission. > > Blocking dropping onto elevated targets from a non-elevated desktop has been > a security feature of UAC since it was introduced a decade and a half ago. > You can remove the restriction by running with UAC turned off, which the > security-minded will of course advise you not to do, and many people have no > clue about anyway (it is, however, the way I run my machine, because I choose > how to control my security myself). > > Alternatively, you can get a third-party file manager, run it with elevated > permissions, and then drop and drop within it - but you can't elevate Windows > Explorer to try to get the same effect.
This, and workarounds, is discussed here, but I'm not a Windows user so I can't comment on its accuracy: https://superuser.com/questions/59051/drag-and-drop-file-into-application-under-run-as-administrator Cheers, David.
