Windows 7: grant one program permission to write to C drive root

I have one program we use on our domain which for some stupid reason wants to copy a file from wherever it is located to the C drive before it opens the file. It's very dumb the way the program is set up to have to do this. The program won't continue running
if it cannot copy the file to the C drive. If I run the program with administrator permissions, the program can copy the file to the C drive. If I run with user permissions, the program can't copy the file, because users can't write to the C drive. I want
my users to stay users.
The vendor may fix it in a later version, but that may take some time, and the new version is going to have its own glitches. The program is essential for our business and we can't dump it and move to something else.
Is there a way to grant this one program to be able to write to the C drive root?
EDIT- to fellow googlers: The marked answers below would work for normal programs, and using Runas did work when I tried it on Notepad. But they did not work on the business program I was running. Something about the program won't allow it to run from another
account using Runas, and I can't edit the program to give it admin credentials from within.

Hello RnGScottgus1,
Do you mean that you want to use other account to run this program as administrator?
Please take a look at the following thread similar to this issue.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0339772f-9f9b-4381-b513-73b263e2cf2f/how-to-run-a-program-as-an-administrator-from-within-a-nonelevated-command-prompt?forum=w7itprogeneral
• Enable the built-in administrator account
• Use the command runas /user:ComputerName\Administrator /savecred "Full path to program's exe file"
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

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