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#1 User is offline   pmondo 

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Posted 21 April 2001 - 02:09 AM

can some 1 please tell me how to turn off the read only protection on all files in win2k
thanks
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#2 User is offline   CrazyKillerMan 

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Posted 21 April 2001 - 04:13 AM

right click on files
(ctrl-a to select all)
uncheck the option????
is this what u are looking for???

I think what your asking is ALL files

so....goto c:, hit ctrl a, right click on any file....turn of check.
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#3 User is offline   Xiven 

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Posted 21 April 2001 - 05:55 PM

Yeah, but that doesn't work recursively on all files and directories. Try this instead:

Start -> Run -> 'cmd'
attrib -r c:\ /S /D

This will take a while smile

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Xiven
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#4 User is offline   DavidJonesIGI 

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Posted 22 April 2001 - 11:32 PM

Id this maybe a rights and permission issue in NTFS? Check the security tab on the file properties and see if you have write access.
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