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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: March 11, 2017, 11:44:57 am »

It doesn't report corruption or anything at all, even before the /restorehealth and stuff like that. It just says there's no integrity violations, and nothing else.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: March 07, 2017, 05:50:20 pm »

Honestly, I'm not sure what to do anymore, even the DOS stuff mentioned earlier isn't working. Is there no chance of anything fixing this other than a full reinstall?

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: March 04, 2017, 05:54:46 pm »

Yes, that did not work either.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: March 03, 2017, 04:13:40 pm »

I did so I could change the password. I checked and it was still on read only on the other account.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: March 02, 2017, 04:59:08 pm »

I tried both, neither method worked for me.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: February 28, 2017, 03:30:48 pm »

I've tried all of my restores in Safe Mode with no result. There was an additional one, but it appears my restore storage ran out, and seeing as it was the last one, it was deleted. I think that was the only one before the problems started, so I'm likely out of luck. Is there anything else I can do or am I just going to have to reinstall?

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: February 27, 2017, 03:11:03 pm »

Not yet, as it seems my password isn't working (I usually use a PIN, but I thought I knew the password just in case). I will try when I figure out what my password is.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: February 27, 2017, 01:26:10 pm »

I'm pretty sure I got rid of the Redistributable when I updated it or it updated itself or something of the sort, but I'll get it back just to make sure that's not causing additional issues.

The problems started about a week ago. So no, not around the time that the Redistributable was uninstalled.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: February 26, 2017, 03:31:24 pm »

Okay, I just ran the second restore. That failed on its own after about 45 minutes, so I decided to do the third restore- that wouldn't fail (waited 1 hr 30 min) even after a. turning off Norton antivirus and b. trying again after a power reset.

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General Computer Support / Re: Read Only Folders

« on: February 26, 2017, 07:05:32 am »

I just ran the Malwarebytes scan. It revealed 2 security threat programs, neither of which were installed around the time this happened. Should I get rid of them anyways? (I don't need them.)

I've got a lot of programs and drivers on the system restore, on both the "to be restored" and "to be removed" sides. One windows update each side.

There's three restores like this, one of which is described as a "Critical Update" for Windows:

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General Computer Support / Read Only Folders

« on: February 25, 2017, 02:02:35 pm »

As the title suggests, my folders are read only. My Microsoft programs are working but third party apps are not able to save files, even when run as administrator. I'm running Windows 10 on a desktop.

I've tried resetting, in the properties, the read only square to be blank but to no avail.

I tried using the command prompt. Didn't work, even though it said it did.

I also tried resetting permissions for my user account. No luck.

Finally, I happened upon the tweaking.com repair program, and I tried using the registry and permissions resets (Options 1 and 2, which seemed the most relevant for my issue.) Neither one worked, and now I'm here.

I'm attaching a screenshot so it can be understood what exactly is going on here:



I've exhausted all of my options that I know about, so is there anything I can do about this? Should I use different options on the repair program? Other solutions?