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Anonymous   07-12-2004 at 10:51:22 PM

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For some reason, Windows won't let me unselect the readonly checkbox. Has
anyone ever encounter this?

Mark

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Anonymous   07-13-2004 at 05:17:24 AM
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SouthSpawn wrote:
> For some reason, Windows won't let me unselect the readonly checkbox. Has
> anyone ever encounter this?
>
> Mark
>
is it a system file? they're funny like that. :-)

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Anonymous   07-13-2004 at 02:58:35 PM
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Kabal,

How can everyfolder on my computer be a system file? How can I turn this
feature off.

Thanks,
Mark

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Anonymous   07-13-2004 at 10:35:28 PM
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SouthSpawn,

I believe the article at the following link will provide a good explanation;

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;326549

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"SouthSpawn" <southspawn@aol.com> wrote in message
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> For some reason, Windows won't let me unselect the readonly checkbox. Has
> anyone ever encounter this?
>
> Mark
>

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Anonymous   07-13-2004 at 11:16:29 PM
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SouthSpawn wrote:
> Kabal,
>
> How can everyfolder on my computer be a system file? How can I turn
> this feature off.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Folders being marked as read only is by design in XP and cannot be removed.
This has no effect on the files that are contained in the folders.

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