drag and drop when running as administrator

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justerman
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Joined: 09 Nov 2018 10:19

drag and drop when running as administrator

Post by justerman »

Hi
I like to drag emails into my file system. This has always worked well until I started running XY as admin. I can still drag and drop within my email client but no longer into the file system. When I revert to running XY as a user, the drag and drop functionality is restored.

I'd appreciate it if someone could explain the apparent restriction and whether it's possible to configure XY to overcome it.

Thank you.

Horst
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Re: drag and drop when running as administrator

Post by Horst »

That has nothing to do with XY.
Windows doesn't allow a process with normal priority to drop anything into a process which runs with enhanced rights.
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highend
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Re: drag and drop when running as administrator

Post by highend »

Are we talking about not being able to drag and drop something from a non-elevated app into XY (which is running elevated)?

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