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please always post solutions you found for your own problems, because otherwise people will google something, find a thread with exactly the same problem they're having and all the help they get is: "Heureka, I solved my problem (but I'm not going to tell you how)!" I bet almost everyone has experienced that at some point and was quite displeased with the situation
For future reference, writing into the Program Files folder from Windows Vista and later does require admin privileges, so it is best to not use said folder to store data.
Regards,
Marco