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XP Professional made my files read only? What's with that?

Scarpozzi

Scarpozzi

Lifer
I installed XP Professional yesterday and now I'm trying to install Office 2000 on it. It'll get half-way through the install and bomb because it can't write to protected windows files... I'm logged on as Administrator. I checked the folders on my drive and every one is Read Only. I unchecked the read only box and it keeps setting it back. Can anyone help?
 
I'm in the same boat. XP ran for a long time just fine. Today, I tried to install an update to one of my programs and it hit the same problem. I can't get it let me make them read write either. What a pain.

 
I never updated this one, but what I found was that it doesn't seem to matter that they're read only. I hit some errors in Office 2000 and had to edit my registry in regedit32 so Office could overwrite some files on the install. After a little bit of work, I was able to get it installed. I seem to like XP alright, but I'm still sort of confused about why it would ever do that to begin with... Oh well...
 
How do I fix it? I have files on a CD that it made read only and I can't uncheck the read only box. I want to delete them but it won't let me now. Why did it make all my files read only and how do I change it so I can delete what I want?
 
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