Wondering if you guys can work out what my problem is. I have a bunch of folders on my local machine. They're all read-only. When I right-click, then properties, I can untick the 'read only' check box. Then click ok. But when I right click on the folder again, and go properties, the tick box is ticked again, and the file is still read-only!!?? How can I make these files writeable? For some reason windows is defaulting them to read-only, no matter what I select. I'm running WinXP pro SP2. I can make most other folders writeable, and these folders aren't anything special, just folders that were extracted from a zip file I downloaded. Please help me guys, it's s***ting me to tears!