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November 12, 2008 at 09:59 AM
shaghayegh.sahebi

All read-only folders in XP

by shaghayegh.sahebi . Updated 14 years, 6 months ago

Hi,

All of my Win XP Home folders are read-only and I can’t change the attribute right clicking the folder. I have no problem cutting the folders, but windows doesn’t permit my C# codes to access the folders.

It might be happening after I deleted a virus manually (the recycler one, by removing the autorun.inf from my drives and registry), defragmented my hard disk and canceled it in the middle of defragment, or deleting another virus by removing the desktop.ini file from my drives and folders.

I have tried many solutions. Using attrib -r +s, changing registry value and setting admin permission for the user. I even tried “sfc /scannow” command and repaired my win XP using it’s installation CD. I formatted and installed another win XP on another partition of my hard disk and the folders are still read-only on all partitions.

I don’t want to format all my hard disk and install my win again ?ause I have to defend my thesis in a month and I don’t wanna loose my installed programs and waste a day installing them again.

Please please help me. Thanks a lot in advance
–Chagh

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