iGuest 3 Report post Posted October 28, 2008 Read only horror Read-only Folders In Xp Replying to CrashCore Replying to iGuest As a writer/artist I have the same problems you are experiencing - and you a 'tech'! Tried your solutions and got nowhere. Any more posibilities, I'm at my wits ends. Pamela -reply by Pamela Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted December 31, 2008 Read-only Problem on ALL folders on 2 different computers after installing Service Pack 3Read-only Folders In Xp I've been trawling the forums for an answer but there are none in particular. This evening I installed SP3 on 2 computers - my mistake for not waiting for a successful trial on the 1st one but it did all look ok. (Hindsight sucks)Whilst trying to edit a word document (after the upgrade) any attempted saves resulted in an error message, hence drawing my attention to the fact that the Read-only box in the Folder Properties form is greyed out. Attempts to change this have failed and attempts to log back in using Safe mode and editing the read-write sttings for the folder have not worked. (The XP version is Home Edition, at least for computer #1 anyway) An article on Microsoft's support site says to use the attrib command within the command prompt but this did not work. Have Microsoft screwed up my computers or is there a fix I can use without going into the ommand prompt? (I can't roll-back pc #1 because I had tured off the feature to gain some performance a while back.) Can anyone please help? Many thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 22, 2009 here ya go - xp file read-onlyRead-only Folders In Xpstart -> run -> type regedit.Exe -> click enter (lol) -> Hkey_local_machine -> software -> microsoft -> windows -> current version -> right click -> New -> dword -> type Usesystemfolders -> Vlue set as 1 -> RESTART -> done now go make your file not read-only</p>-reply by Shane Buff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted March 6, 2009 In my system, I can go up to: regedit.Exe ->Hkey_local_machine -> software -> microsoft -> windows ->Current version AND I CAN'T FIND -> right click -> New -> dword -> type Usesystemfolders -> Vlue set as 1 -> RESTART What should I do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aloKNsh 0 Report post Posted March 15, 2009 (edited) Its easy to change in xp i havent use vista so i can only tell of xp,first logon xp in safemode then go to administrator mode and select the folder and then right click on it and select properties and then select the options and then hope so your job is done........................so all the best Edited March 15, 2009 by sweet_tchxprt (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
