Doc wrote:

"Noel Paton" wrote in
:


A MUCH safer and easier way is simply to navigate to the folder in
Explorer, right-click on the folder icon, and select Properties.
Uncheck the 'Read-only box, and click Apply/OK
You may need to go to the folder itself, and Select All (CTRL+A), and
repeat.
At least this way you don't start playing with the registry, with all
the attendant hazards involved! - personally. I'm of the view that
such tweaks are all very well in their place, but their place is not
on a PC that may be used by those not well-versed in computing (e.g.
newbies/kids/etc)

Point taken. However, the right click context menu is VERY HANDY for
removing read only attributes on a CDR, or files taken from a CD, where
there may be thousands of files involved. Much easier g


....though not in the same ballpark as opening a DOS window and typing
ATTR -R *.*

One of the voices in my head [1] is whispering that some CD writing
programs have an option of keeping attributes (naturally just for backup
CDs, that would defeat the purpose on a live disk), though perhaps I'm
mixing that up with the DOS command XCOPY32/K


Rick
[1] Figgs is gonna be *so* disappointed she's on vacation when I wrote
that g