thanks Will but it didnt work like that yesterday and now I cant save any
files is there any way I can change it back

"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
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> That's the way XP works. It doesn't effect the files in those folders
> though.
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> Will Denny
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> "dumbo" <dumbo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9D40A8F9-C680-414A-B9CC-154796253684@microsoft.com...
> > all my folders have suddenly become read only.I can uncheck the read only
> > box
> > but when I click on ok it canges back to read only
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