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Old 05-06-2016, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Clawdio45 View Post
If you do a google search on "cannot change windows read-only files", you will find that you are far from alone with this problem. The best solution I have found is in the form of a simple freeware program called Take Ownership. Once installed it offers an option to, as the name implies, take ownership of such files if you right-click on the file or folder.
Thank you the program fixed my problem in Win7. This weekend I will install Win10 on my new laptop and hopefully if I have the same problem in Win10 the program will also fix it there.

Again Thank you for the easy fix.