Small issues while reinstalling windows... all my files are set to ‘read only’. Nothing I do seemed to unlock them what the frack is going on?!?
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Small issues while reinstalling windows... all my files are set to ‘read only’. Nothing I do seemed to unlock them what the frack is going on?!?
To expand what MD Computing is talking about, I've seen this issue for only one thing, and if it is what I'm thinking it is, it was a pain to fix for me. All the files are system ownership for some reason. It wouldn't be bad if it wasn't for linking the wrong ID of the system because of "different installation" of windows. If that is the case, you may have to consider a run a live disk of linux (for ease of purpose) and see if you can transfer the files out of the system to an external drive.… See More
This way, it shouldn't carry the ntfs permission attributes and they should get freshly applied anew when you transfer them onto the system back on windows.
There is an alternative where if you wish to tinker, you could force a Command Prompt in System access mode and force an attribute change to the folders and all folders and files in those folder to remove read-only attribute. I just don't like to always recommend unless someone knows how to fully use Command Prompt.
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Did you do this before reloading windows?
www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-efi-system-partition.html
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Create a new user and use that, it should fix the issue, well it did for me.
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Need to go into administrator mode and set yourself as read and write in your profile properties
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Maybe that's why I can't open a bunch of my pictures. It says I don't have permission all of the sudden
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Had the same issue. Didnt know it was from update until i read this!
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Perhaps Ivan could #help ?
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