Bought a dell 7010 from ebay. It was upgraded to windows 10. The document folders in my c/user are all read only. I tried giving inheritance and using advanced settings to change from read only but it won't work, an error occurs.
Reinstalled w10 twice but still no good.
Anyone had similar problems?
Cheers!
Pretty sure that Windows 10 has a "Factory Reset" option to save you from reinstalling.
Do you have administrator access on your account?
Yeah I'm administrator. I'm pretty sure i used the reformat option (left it on overnight to do its thing), but I'll have another play when I get home.
From Google, it may be that the drive/folders was created with another user which is why I'm having issues.
Otherwise i think I'll contact seller to see if they have had this problem before.
Maybe the seller used an Image to load windows.
Id download windows 10 again , stick it on a USB and do a fresh install choosing to initialize the HDD and start again. Windows will remember the windows 10 Key anyway.
Thanks, I will try this tonight when I am home
So I've gone and made a recovery/reinstall w10 dvd. Deleted a partition and tried to install Windows, but it says it can't install on this partition. I try to repair and it can't do that :/
Something to do with my disk having a mbr partition table?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk…
Here is the answer… Hopefully by morning everything is working.
@roddo: After all that, diskcheck: clean etc it's still showing read only in my docs.
Fml. I'm going to bed, defeated.
@roddo: Other than the folders showing as read only, are you actually having any issues writing files and/or creating folders?
My Win10 shows a square box in the read only box for every folder I've checked, even a newly created one. Trying to clear this seems to apply, but when checked again, it's still there.
Everything works fine though. I can rename and use the folder just fine.
I got this code from one of the computer mag columnists and have used it very effectively on several occasions.
Open a text editor (Notepad or similar) and copy and paste the lines below.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"
then save it as TakeOwnership.REG
The .REG is important
Double click the file and it should install this code in the registry.
Use it by going to the top level folder you want to own and right click and select Take Ownership.
Sit back and be patient if there is a lot of files to own especially if you have a slow machine.
DISCLAIMER: It's a long time since I had the need to use this so I'm a bit rusty on the how to use it and I haven't got the time ATM to try it.
If you want to remove the above code (why bother unless there is a problem) then save the following as RemoveTakeOwnership.REG and run it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\runas]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
Thank you. Will try it tonight.
I think I'll probably try to return it, it shouldn't be this hectic to buy and use a computer.
Hey Guys, solved the issue - it was to do with my external HDD showing "contains errors - please scan" when I plugged it in and ignored. Now things are normal… Just need to find out if I can put in a 1TB HDD alongside the SSD in there now.
Format first. Then reinstall.