Set Permissions for file deletion

I need to create a new temp directory and at the end of my program, I need to delete the temp files...pretty common thing to do.  My problem is the permissions dont allow me to delete the files unless I set them first somehow.  I want to know what the settings must be in the Set Permission.VI so I can then delete the files.  How do I mechanize this? 

Are you having this issue in both the Development Environment and the Run Time Environment? The second solution that I linked is for executables only, and only makes it so that you don't have to turn off the UAC because it has administrative privilages. Anything that an administrator is able to do, the executable will now have permission to do. To test if this solution will work at all, just right click on the executable and select "Run as Administrator". If you are still having issues when the executable is running as administrator, the above solution will not work. 
Try running this snippet and let me know what happens. All it does is create a file in the temp directory, read its permissions, then deletes the file. This runs on my computer with no error in the Development Environment and has the permissions of binary 110110110 (Decimal 438). 

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