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I recently installed windows 7 64 bit on a SSD and now, it appears that all of my folders and most of my files are read only. I have tried to remove the read only aspect of them, or take ownership of the drives or folders but I can't seem to have a permanent solution to this issue. I imagine it might have something to do with policies, but I am not familiar enough with them.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

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Matthew Williams
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  • Thank you. I would have done that myself, but I do not have enough reputation score yet. – Robert Headley Mar 26 '15 at 10:33
  • If you open properties for single folder, then Explorer always show Read-only attribute in undetermined state regardless of actual state of Read-Only attribute for folder. – user364455 Mar 26 '15 at 11:01
  • @PetSerAI yeah, So I have read, but I was having issues with some portable apps not being able to save their configuration files. – Robert Headley Mar 26 '15 at 11:02
  • But how did you find out that your issues related to Read-only attribute? Even if folder actually have Read-only attribute, it does not prevent to files to be created inside it. – user364455 Mar 26 '15 at 11:08
  • Because my portable apps are not saving their configurations. – Robert Headley Mar 26 '15 at 11:18
  • It is not answer to the question. Why Read-only? Why not file permissions? Why not corrupted file system? Why not something else? How did you find out that Read-only attribute is culprit? What proofs do you have? – user364455 Mar 26 '15 at 11:26
  • I don't have any proofs. I just want my drives to work reliably. – Robert Headley Mar 26 '15 at 11:44
  • It initially did not tell me about that post when I made this one. – Robert Headley Mar 26 '15 at 12:02
  • the 'Read Only' checkbox on folder properties has nothing to do with the actual folder. Note that there is a note in parenthesis right next to it that states it affects the files within that tree only. See: http://superuser.com/questions/866120/cant-remove-read-only-attribute-from-folder-windows-8-1/866147#866147 – Dawn Benton Apr 04 '15 at 00:27

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I ran tweaking.com's permission repair utility. I don't know if that was the problem, but it kind of makes this question invalid. My apologies.

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  1. Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
  2. Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer
  3. On the Edit menu, point to New, click DWORD Value, and then type the following registry value name: UseSystemForSystemFolders
  4. Right-click the new value, and then click Modify.
  5. Type 1, and then click OK.
  6. Quit Registry Editor.

  7. Open a new command prompt as administrator and 

    attrib -r [path you want to change] By exemple :

attrib -r D:\

    It will remove the read only attribute.

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