Read Only attribute on Windows XP

[Dechomai]

Is there something with Windows XP that makes all folders
in the C: drive read only? I tried to reset the attribute
of those folders and I can't do it. Also any other folder
that I create it becomes read only by default and I can't
change it. Help please!

Thanks,

E.G.

 

[Juan Pablo Barrios [uy]]

Surely those folders aren't read only, the matter is that the folder
properties window simply don't show the read-only attribute when you select
a folder.
If yuu go to the console and run the attrib commnad you'll see that those
folders don't have the read-only attribute.

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[Wesley Vogel]

[[Unlike the Read-only attribute for a file, the Read-only attribute for a
folder is typically ignored by Windows, Windows components and accessories,
and other programs.]]

Cannot View or Change the Read-Only or System Attribute of Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326549

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there something with Windows XP that makes all folders
in the C: drive read only? I tried to reset the attribute
of those folders and I can't do it. Also any other folder
that I create it becomes read only by default and I can't
change it

Read only is an attribute that has no meaning for folders (the
directories are always open for writing), and XP makes an alternative
use of it. You can change it and on Apply it will ask if you want the
change applied to all contained objects, but the display of it for the
folder will revert to greyed