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Well, what I ended up doing was indeed using SeRestorePrivilege, since while looking at the code, I must of been thinking *right* that day, and had written the scanning code modular enough, that I...

I am just trying to avoid writing a completely new piece of software just as a service, the rewrite would entail more work to avoid permission issues (as the users are able to scan/include other...

Well, my reasoning for not using a service is the duplication of code just to read from the specified directory and delete files using it, it leaves it open for hacking purposes and the security...

Actually, the TEMP that I'm speaking of is in use in Windows Vista, 7, 8.x and 10. It is used by services running in the SYSTEM account that require a temp folder whether or not a user is logged in,...

The software itself could use the SeRestorePrivilege as a last resort, but I'd rather avoid it, though there is no real worry, I could easily have it request the permission and revoke it at the end...

First off, there are 2 (typically) Temp folders in Windows:
The system folder: %SystemRoot%\Temp
The user folder: %temp%

Those two folders "were" being monitored by a piece of software I had...