My work laptop was just upgraded from XP to Windows 7. While I used t be the Admin of my old machine, I only have "Elevated Rights" on the Win 7 one. as a result, I canot use Windows Explorer to copy files to certain folder, for example, the C:\program Files location. Surprisingly however, it is a well known fact among my colleaugues who also have Elevated Rights that we can write DOS batch files to copy the files to the same locations that Windows Explorer will not allow us to copy to. Note too, that this is true even when "explorer.exe" is started by clicking the "run Elevated" context menu to launch the program.
The fact that I can circumvent the limitation by copying files in a DOS file is surprising to me. I would have thought that the method attempted to copy the files should be irrelevant, that should either have the rights to do the copy or not.
I am looking to understand this apparent inconsistency in behavior and was wondering if this suggested that there might be a Windows Explorer substitute that might work in place of Windows Explorer. Using a GUI would be less tedious and error prone for me.
Can anyone explain why this inconsistent behavior may be happening and what Explorer replacement/supplement might allow me to copy freely?