I'm having the same problem. I have two laptops sharing folders. Both are running XP SP2 but recently one laptop cannot change the files in the shared folder located on the other laptop. Note: You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has administrative credentials.
If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to the Security tab.
For additional information about how to do this, check out the article How to disable simplified sharing and set permissions on a shared folder in Windows XP. To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps: Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message if one appears. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab. In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message: You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name.
Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control? All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes. Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.
Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
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JavaScript is disabled. Now I CAN delete folders and rename them. That's good. But all folders on my PC are still checked as Read-Only and I can't turn that off, even as administrator.
I noticed on some discussion groups that this is a somewhat common complaint. One person said it is normal and that's just how Windows XP works?? I found an article on Microsoft Support that addresses this exact problem. Maybe I'm driving myself crazy for nothing Thanks All. Scleros Posts: 2,, Reputation: Originally Posted by mitchsc.
Jun 16, , AM. Scleros, I see your point, and will carefully read those articles. I take it that you do not see this as a problem. That's great. Perhaps it's always been this way and I never noticed it until I had the "unable to delete" problem?? Out of burning curiosity, why would my wife's PC, with the same OS, not have the read-only attribute? Thanks again Jun 16, , PM. Jun 17, , AM. Thanks Scleros. I didn't know about the "partial and full" read-only checks. Mine are all partial as well green.
And yes, my wife's PC was upgraged from to XP. Thanks for checking at work I checked several work machines. All folders viewed locally at the machine or remotely via My Network places from another machine using XP's Windows Explorer have partial read only checks. I don't have any upgraded machines to look at. So it seems that it's only the presentation of the attribute by the Windows Explorer version in XP, as the Microsoft support documents indicated the attribute is ignored by Explorer in XP.
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