Unable to start program: Access denied
<p>I have reasently uppgraded my computer with a SSD drive. I did a fresh installation of windows. In the process I also uppgraded from win 8.1 to win 10.</p>

<p>I use a decentralized arichive keeping the system on the C:\ drive and documents on a bigger storage drive D:\ .</p>

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<p><strong>Problem:</strong> When the win10 installation was finished and so the installation of Visual Studio I went on to open one of my programming projects just to get the following error message when compiling.</p>

<pre><code>Microsoft Visual Studio

    Unable to start program
    'D:\...\project\Debug\project.exe'.

    Access denied.
</code></pre>

<ul>
<li><p>The project hasn't been moved since I use the same storage drive as before the installation.</p></li>
<li><p>When I plugg in the old system containing win 8.1 there are no problems to be found.</p></li>
<li><p>A similar error message pops up if the *.exe file is started from the explorer.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>What can be done about this?</p>

<p><em>Using Visual Studio 2015 on a Windows 10 computer, programming in C++.</em></p>

<h2>Updates</h2>

<ul>
<li><p>This also affects new projects &amp; solutions made from Visual Studio 2015</p></li>
<li><p>The location of the *.exe file doesn't seem to matter. Even a new project started on the C:\ drive encounters the same problem.</p></li>
<li><p>Starting the project in a folder with default security acess (windows user ID) gives the same result.</p></li>
</ul>