I am working with an application that is installed as a DLL on the system (stealth program for parents to install where a teenager can't go looking for it, etc.). Therefore I need to store a few files in an accessible location that is out of sight. System32 seems the most logical place for these few files.
The problem is in my C# application running on Windows 7 x64 even with UAC rights passed to the application (run as Admin) a file or folder is never created. I don't get an exception at all either, which is very odd to me. It is as though the file creation is ignored.
Are you sure the UAC rights are correct. You need to be a member of the administrators group and have elevated UAC rights to write to the system32 folder (at least to the folders in there that I access and make changes to).
... Thinkpads_User
The code was helpful to see the file was actually being created and caused me to look further into the problem. It appears the file was being created in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Test2 even thought the path was C:\Windows\System32
Strange but at least I know the issue now.
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But when I write a file it does to:
C:\windows\SysWOW64
Which is why it appeared to not be working, but in fact was just working differently then expected.
I suspect .NET framework which handles the file IO changes the write location since I'm on a 64-bit OS and that part of the .NET framework is maybe 64-bit (as my app is compiled as x86). I verfied this by writing a C++ program in native code and it wrote to system32... So it is indeed an oddity to the .NET framework maybe something new in VS2010, not sure.
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