Thread: custom mp3 player listbox problem c#

i'm making an mp3 player in c#, now i DON'T want to use openfiledialog to do this. i want to get the list of directories and files, but Directory.GetDirectory(file) and Directory.GetFiles(file) doesn't let you get access to the User folder like My Documents because it's a protected folder. here's a screenshot:



when i click on Documents and Settings it shows a blank list, but i know there's files in the folder. what would you guys do?