Properties/readonly disabling?

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Terry

Hello there. I am getting tried of programs/something enabling the
read only attribute, and it takes time to determine whether it is the
Antivirus, Firewall or whatever prog. has decided to do so again.

Can I disable this feature completely from a non boot hard drive or
partition. For example keep the Read-only, Hidden and Archive
checkboxes permanently unchecked.

Thanks for your interest,

Terry
 
Well, perhaps my answer is not very accurate, I mean, this command might
help you to do the task more quickly. But why do you want to change the
attributes of all the files? What files do you want to change and why? Is
your machine cleaned of virus?
 
Well, perhaps my answer is not very accurate, I mean, this command might
help you to do the task more quickly. But why do you want to change the
attributes of all the files? What files do you want to change and why? Is
your machine cleaned of virus?
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Hi Jose!
There is no virus according to two well known programs. For some
reason the read only box gets ticked at sometime and cannot get it
unticked. therefore I cannot rename or move files.

When I untick the box in the attribute window it gets ticked again
almost immediately. Everything else works perfectly.

Thanks

Terry.
 
Terry said:
Hello there. I am getting tried of programs/something enabling the
read only attribute, and it takes time to determine whether it is the
Antivirus, Firewall or whatever prog. has decided to do so again.

Can I disable this feature completely from a non boot hard drive or
partition. For example keep the Read-only, Hidden and Archive
checkboxes permanently unchecked.

Thanks for your interest,

Terry
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Is this on files or folders?
Is it all or some?
If it's only some can you give some examples?
 
Hi,

If you are referring to the "read only" attribute seen in a folder's
properties then you should ignore it just like Windows does. It's not
actually an option at this level, it appears to be there but is actually
greyed out. "Read only" is a file attribute, not a folder attribute and is
not recognized as such by the OS.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Actually it seems as if every folder,subfolder and file on the drive
are marked as read-only.

The files most at issue that need to be worked urgently are in a
folder with subfolders and are all .doc files. Have looked in Word
2000 but can find no options that allows all .doc files to be marked
as unread.

I have disabled all the antivirus, firewall and associated progs but
still everything I need to manipulate wont budge.

Thanks again for you interest.
 
Terry said:
Actually it seems as if every folder,subfolder and file on the drive
are marked as read-only.

The files most at issue that need to be worked urgently are in a
folder with subfolders and are all .doc files. Have looked in Word
2000 but can find no options that allows all .doc files to be marked
as unread.

I have disabled all the antivirus, firewall and associated progs but
still everything I need to manipulate wont budge.
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As Rick said, folders and subfolders WILL be marked Read Only. It shouldn't
affect files, though. You might want to ask in a Word newsgroup like
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement . I don't have Word 2000 anymore.
 
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