If you encounter error 0x80070522 in Windows with a message saying “A required privilege is not held by the client,” then you likely lack the required permission to perform your file copy, move, or create task. Other items can also cause this issue, preventing you from creating files in certain folders. We’ll show you how to troubleshoot the permission and other issues to fix the error on your Windows 11 or 10 PC.
How to Fix Error 0x80070522 on Windows PC
Possible reasons why you are getting the above error are that your program does not have administrator privileges, User Account Control (UAC) is interfering with your task, you do not have an administrator account, you do not have permission to write data to your disk, and many more.
If you have received the above error while launching an app, then run the app with administrator privileges to resolve the issue. This is because launching an app as an administrator allows the app to perform all the tasks required to run. This will resolve all permission issues.
If running the app as administrator resolves the issue, make sure that Windows always starts the app with administrator privileges:
