Please help me, I'm in despair...
I can no longer use dopus at work, since our machines were upgraded to windows 10, and it's impossible to run unauthorized exe files.. The same applied for windows 7 in the past, but we had found that there were a few folders where you could bypass the restriction and actually run programs from there. In windows 10, there is a folder like that, but it does not allow copying folders in it anymore, so, although I can copy dopus.exe, i cannot copy its folder. I'm also not allowed to create any symlinks. Shortcuts won't cut it. Is there ANY way I can have dopus as a single file exe work in that kind of setting? or any other workaround that I can't think of..
I can't work without dopus. All my work, folders, shortcuts, were organized there..
Have you tried asking them to authorise it? It may not be that difficult.
Alternatively you could change jobs 
you have to able to justify why it's indispensable, and how others would benefit gravely from it, too..
Unfortunately most people who work there are of a completely different profile, and mostly use word and excel, and that's it. So I doubt I will be able to justify it.. From your response I gather what I'm asking is impossible... I understand, seemed a bit of a longshot anyway.
In the meantime, if anyone finds another loophole in windows 10 security, please let me know !!!
Run a lunch time presentation to demonstrate how awesome it is, and invite all the IT staff. I'm sure you'll get plenty of help on here and I know others have done it in the past.
Can you run the portable version from a USB drive? I can't use the full version in my workplace but the USB version runs fine on Windows 10.
I feel your pain though, I would be lost without Opus at work.
I won't dare mention that I use Opus to any IT staff just in case they decide to block it. I use IT Mode when they work on my machine
lunchtime presentations here are on..completely different things..It would never get approved. Also, I wouldn't be able to run it anywhere 
I can't run from a USB drive, I can't run an .exe from anywhere (except for a folder -that used to be C:\windows\debug\WIA in windows 7-but i can no longer also copy folders there, so no go....)
The portable version can be copied to a HDD/SSD and run from there, as long as the USB stick remains plugged in. (When creating the USB version, you need to select the "Use as a dongle" option for this to work.)
You'd still need a folder structure, though. If you can't create folders in the place you can run exes from, and you can't run exes from anywhere you can create folders (e.g. %AppData% or %Temp%) then I can't think of a way it could work.
It's a bit strange they lock the machine down to that extent but don't stop you running exe files from certain folders that you have write access to. That seems like a hole in their protections which they'd want to fill anyway.
I used to do what you describe when we were on windows 7, but now with the new restrictions I can't copy folders, only single files. It's strange, isn't it.. 
i'm so sad. And that freecommander alternative looks SO strange and uninviting to me..