[WIN64] Access is denied.

[jahinzee]

I am trying to run the 'minerd.exe' utility on my system, but everytime I run the program with CMD, even with admin privileges, I get an Access is denied. error. (see screenshot)

I'm using a laptop with an Intel Core i5-5200U and 12 GBs of RAM, running Windows 10 Pro Build 19042.746.

A workaround that I found is to download the Linux binary, and run it under WSL, but I feel as though that WSL might be negatively affecting my performance, as it's not running natively on my system.

How can I get the Windows utility to run?

Any help would be appreciated. :)

[Magnetesim]

It's probably because your antivirus is stopping you from using it, that's what has happened to me.

[mooleshacat]

Dont have antivirus. What next?

[justanotherscriptkiddienerd]

Use an admin account. Duh!