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helping a friend with XP Home ed. This is a hard one that i haven't run
into before.
he was attempting to get rid of spyware. had to turn Restore off. Then
he tried to delete lingering files in a folder per instruction. Couldn't
delete them so changed folder attribute from read-only to not read
only. Did get the files deleted but i don't think it had anything to do
with attributes. OK at this point.
later things went way down hill. He later went back to reverse what he
did with the attribute. Apparently was one level up and changed
attribute to read only for Program Files folder. I don't think this was
real bad but apparently there were two check boxes one of which was for
changing all files and folders underneath that folder to read-only. i
don't know if this was the default or not. any way to get the
attributes back to default via a tool or other method since System
Restore wasn't active. What are the ramifications? checked a few files
and some still say archive as well as read-only.
any thoughts other than it shouldn't have happened.
helping a friend with XP Home ed. This is a hard one that i haven't run
into before.
he was attempting to get rid of spyware. had to turn Restore off. Then
he tried to delete lingering files in a folder per instruction. Couldn't
delete them so changed folder attribute from read-only to not read
only. Did get the files deleted but i don't think it had anything to do
with attributes. OK at this point.
later things went way down hill. He later went back to reverse what he
did with the attribute. Apparently was one level up and changed
attribute to read only for Program Files folder. I don't think this was
real bad but apparently there were two check boxes one of which was for
changing all files and folders underneath that folder to read-only. i
don't know if this was the default or not. any way to get the
attributes back to default via a tool or other method since System
Restore wasn't active. What are the ramifications? checked a few files
and some still say archive as well as read-only.
any thoughts other than it shouldn't have happened.