Changing Read Only Attribute in Windows 7

There are 8 replies in this Thread. The last Post () by Gunny.

    Hi all.


    I have looked through the posts, but cannot find anything about changing read only attribute in Windows 7. I have tried it about 20 times and even though my user account has admin rights, it will not let me do it. Only reason I'm doing it is to change my resolution to widescreen, which I did easily on pc running XP.


    Any ideas where I am going wrong ?



    Cheers,


    FD

    It changes the same in win7 as in winxp.
    "it will not let me do it" can have any number of causes; os should 'present' you with an error or notification or something similar.

    @ Bond - errrrr not sure how search would help here, mate !


    @ Lost Heaven - when I try to change attributes it comes up with Administration authorisation required, as this user on laptop has Admin rights, I click to proceed. It goes through the changes, but after I click ok at the end, file reverts to Read only.


    If I open Data/cameras.ini in notepad to put in the new figures, when I come to save, it says access denied.

    Hmmm... i'm not sure about this one...


    you can try a small work-around for your problem:
    rename current cameras.ini to lets say cameras1.ini
    make a new text document, rename it to cameras.ini
    copy content from cameras1.ini to cameras.ini, do the changes you need, save file.

    I was about to say that the permissions are set to read-only and you have to uncheck the box.

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