[harryman]

I want to delete a temporary folder that my program makes in C:\temp, but when i try to delete it it says "Path/File Acess Error". So I wondering if I can either Set A Token Privelage to allow me to delete this folder, or, create this folder with a privelage that allows me to delete it. Honestly, I don't really know what token privelages are, but it sounds like maybe it would help.

[Aftab]

The error may be occurring because the folder you are trying to delete is not empty. First delete all the files in your temp folder, using the KILL statement and then try removing the folder.

eg:
Kill "C:\temp\anyfolder\*.*"
rmdir "C:\temp\anyfolder"

[harryman]

that worked. But I still would like to know about token privelages...

[Aftab]

Token privelages are basically the security attributes associated with the current session (currently logged in user). These attributes determine what the current user can and cant do with system. Each new process has a copy of these privelages. For example changing the system time requires a privelage, rebooting the PC under Windows NT requires a token privelage etc... In fact under NT alot of API calls require the process to have a certain level of privelage. There are VB API functions that allow you to determine/modify the token privelagesLookokupPrivilegeValue,AdjustTokenPrivileges).

N.B. If you are going to modify privelages through VB (or any other language), be sure to change them back to the way you found them, unless you are going to reboot the PC.

[Aftab]

By the way I dont know how that sad purple face got into my post, i didn't put it there.

[Snake~eyes]

You probaly had characters in there that display the smilie, if you wanted you could have clicked disable smilies at the bottom of the post reply area.

You probaly put a : and a ( together making a

[harryman]

ohhh. It all makes sense now. So in VB is there like a... you know. A thingy I can look through to see what API calls require which token privelage?