
Personally, I prefer doing the second option, so that way I don’t have to keep getting UAC privileges elevated.

Windows Explorer should prompt you for UAC elevation at that time. Lastly, you can save the file to your desktop, then copy and paste it to the original destination through Windows Explorer.Work with the files within your user profile folder (c:Users): For example, if you extract Book1.xlsx to a folder on your Desktop (C:UsersDesktopBook1), you should be able to edit any files in there without needing to elevate UAC permissions.Then open the file you want to edit from the File > Open menu item in Notepad, make your changes and you shouldn’t have a problem saving them. Run notepad.exe as admin: right click the Notepad icon, choose “Run as Admin”.There’s a few ways you can approach this: UAC elevation occurs when you see a prompt like this: You probably need to be running in a UAC elevated context.


That sounds like it could be from a Windows permissions error.
