Getting E_ACCESSDENIED when calling IPersistFile:Save

[TClarke]

Hi all I'm calling IPersistFile:Save on my local machine logged in with administrator rights and I'm getting a security error any ideas would be very welcome. I'm using VS2005 on XP SP2 Here's the code, it's basically pulled out of the VS documentation:

HRESULT CShellLink::CreateLink(LPCSTR lpszPathObj, LPCSTR lpszPathLink, LPCSTR lpszDesc, LPCSTR lpszArgs)
{
HRESULT hres;
IShellLink* psl;
::CoInitialize(NULL);
// Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface.
hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
IID_IShellLink, (LPVOID*)&psl);
if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
{

	IPersistFile\* ppf; 

	// Set the path to the shortcut target and add the description. 
	psl->SetPath(lpszPathObj); 
	psl->SetDescription(lpszDesc); 
	psl->SetArguments(lpszArgs);

	// Query IShellLink for the IPersistFile interface for saving the 
	// shortcut in persistent storage. 
	hres = psl->QueryInterface(IID\_IPersistFile, (LPVOID\*)&ppf); 

	if (SUCCEEDED(hres)) 
	{ 
		WCHAR wsz\[MAX\_PATH\]; 

		// Ensure that the string is Unicode. 
		if ( ! MultiByteToWideChar(CP\_ACP, 0, lpszPathLink, -1, wsz, MAX\_PATH)) {
			DisplayLastError();
		} else {

			// Save the link by calling IPersistFile::Save.
			hres = ppf->Save(wsz, TRUE); 
			if ( ! SUCCEEDED(hres)) {
				DisplayLastError();
			}
		}		
		ppf->Release(); 
	} 
	psl->Release(); 
} 
return hres; 

}

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[Nathan Holt at EMOM]

TClarke wrote:

I'm calling IPersistFile:Save on my local machine logged in with administrator rights and I'm getting a security error any ideas would be very welcome. I'm using VS2005 on XP SP2

Since it is a security error, I think it is important to know where you are saving to. Even as an administrator, there are parts of the system you aren't allowed to modify. Nathan

[User 7819005]

I'm getting the same error on W7 using VS 2008 and the same sample code. I am writing to a temp folder with security set to all access for "Everyone" from a shell running with Administrator priviledge. It still doesn't work. Probably, as usual, MS sample code is incomplete, or not even wrong. -Geoff