What to do if 'Administrative rights are required to copy this folder'

What to do if "Administrator privileges are required to copy this folder"?

Win8.1 system, sometimes when copying files or folders, "You need to provide administrator rights to copy to this folder" will appear, which needs to be adjusted in the group policy.

Methods/Steps

As shown in the picture, those who have played Win8.1 may have encountered it

You can No matter how you click to continue, it’s all in vain.

Right-click the Start button - Run (or press Win R), bring up the run box with administrative rights, type gpedit.msc, press Enter, bring up the "Local Group Policy Editor".

Then click Computer Configuration-Windows Settings-Security Settings-Local Policy-Security Options. In the right window, find User Account Control: Run all administrators in administrator approval mode, right-click-Properties (or double-click it) , select Disabled.

Copy the folder or file to the predetermined location on the C drive again. The system will still pop up a box prompting "You need to provide administrator rights to copy to this folder." You Just click Continue to copy. If it doesn't work, try restarting your computer.

If it still doesn’t work, there are two methods below

1. Right-click the C drive-Properties-Security, find USERS, then modify the permissions and increase the write permission

2. Use the command to lower the security level of C drive icacls c:\ /setintegritylevel M

Right-click the start button-Run (or press Win R) to bring up the system with administrative rights Run the box, type CMD, then paste icacls c:\ /setintegritylevel M and press Enter.

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