Documents And Pictures Set To Read Only Shortly After Installation?
Aug 4, 2015
All my documents and pictures get set to Read Only sometime after installation. There is no way I can set them back to normal. I have tried every way that is suppose to correct the problem. Right after installation everything works like it should. After some normal use all files are set to Read Only.
Not positive of this but it appeared the files were set to Read Only when I tried to use Xbox after the recent installation. I'm now back to Windows 7 for the third time. The following will not correct my problem. I get a message I need admin permission even when I'm signed in as admiistrator.
CMD
attrib -r D:my-folders
and the files
attrib -r D:my-folder *.*
Properties/advanced/change also will not work.
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