The most easy way to do is right click on the application you're running the code from, click Run as Administrator and then run the code in that application. You'll not get any WinError. And also being in the Administrators group doesn't mean whatever application you run has the permission. You have the permission to do manually not the application right? I'm saying this because I'm the admin of my computer still Python raises WinError if I run it normally. Being the admin of my computer I still have to run Python in elevated mode. Windows considers Python as a third party app and it'll not give admin access to it so easily.