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Originally Posted by crosscountry
I'm not sure if I have a virus or not. Nothing seems to be damaged on my computer, but it is acting weird.
So, "My Documents" is set to read only. This means I cannot save or edit anything even photos and put them in that folder or any other Windows starts with. So, "My Photos" My videos, My Music all seem to be write protected. I can open everything and see it, but no editing.
It is so strange. My desktop and other folders I created allow me to use them, but windows folders not.
Any ideas on what is going on? Thanks in advance.
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A few questions:
What version of Windows is this?
By "Windows folders" do you mean that "My Documents" is under the Windows directory?
If you try to save a new file you can't do that? Or is it just updates to existing files you can't save?
Generally, if you can't edit existing files, it's because the read only attribute for the files is set on. You can clear that by an "attrib -r" in a DOS or CMD window. I'm not aware of anything that wouldn't let you save new files in the folder, except maybe severe disk space problems (which would probably be pretty obvious anyway) or a messed up file structure. XP (if this is XP) appears to ignore read only attributes on directories, but not individual files.