我在哪里可以创建没有管理员权限的目录？

Question

I am trying to create a directory with my program, but the program will not be run under admin. Where in the Windows file system can I create a directory and write to the directory without admin rights?

Answer 1

Without admin permissions the intended behavior is that you can write to the folders inside the user account folder.

C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\

You can write to the documents, pictures and music sub folders, AppData\\Roaming or AppData\\Local\\ etc...

As mentioned in the comments SHGetKnownFolderPath is the preferred method to get these folder paths, here is a simple example:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <shlobj_core.h>

int main()
{
    PWSTR path = nullptr;

    SHGetKnownFolderPath(FOLDERID_Documents, 0, 0, &path);

    std::cout << path << std::endl;

    std::getchar();
    return 0;
}