admin can't change read-only files

I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in any
profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to rename
or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is read-only,
so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone explain
why? Is there something I can do?
I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.

Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?

"hitchman" <hitchman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:146DF7CF-E561-45FD-8296-FA12E776C5C2@microsoft.com...
>I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> any
> profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> rename
> or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> read-only,
> so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> explain
> why? Is there something I can do?
> I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.

These are folders that I created. Why would the name be relevant? As the
aministrator I should have control over data I created.

"Dave B." wrote:

> Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?
>
> "hitchman" <hitchman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:146DF7CF-E561-45FD-8296-FA12E776C5C2@microsoft.com...
> >I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> > admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> > any
> > profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> > rename
> > or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> > read-only,
> > so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> > explain
> > why? Is there something I can do?
> > I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.
>
>
>

Sorry, one pice of info that I forgot to add. These files or folders may have
been created in a differnet computer and copied over to the new computer. I
don't know if that is when they became read-only, but I can't see any other
event that would trigger that.

"Dave B." wrote:

> Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?
>
> "hitchman" <hitchman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:146DF7CF-E561-45FD-8296-FA12E776C5C2@microsoft.com...
> >I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> > admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> > any
> > profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> > rename
> > or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> > read-only,
> > so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> > explain
> > why? Is there something I can do?
> > I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.
>
>
>