earch on "impersonation:" what you want to do can be done by having the program impersonate a user who has the needed permissions.

Less elegantly and less securely, you can give the shortcut used to start the app the permissions of another user.

Hank

>I want my application to copy a file to an Archive folder. So I have to give the user that is running my application Write rights to that directory.
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>I would rather NOT give ANY user the rights to copy a file to the archive directory. Everyone can READ from Archive, but the intent was that no user would modify, delete or write to Archive.
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>Can the VFP application somehow use a different Windows User ID to copy the file to Archive??