Can't undo READ ONLY - This is absolutely ridiculous

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ridiculousvista

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I should be given 1 billion USD from bill gates for this mess.

I literally tried everything I could to undo the READ ONLY from files, folders, and everything in between. I followed tutorials, I went into safety mode, I used the dos command prompt "CACLS files /e /p {USERNAME}:{PERMISSION}". I changed administrator options, I changed the registry, I literally did every last thing you can do that these sorry vista programmers put in place; yet STILL I can not WRITE TO A FILE!!! I really despise apple and the hipsters that jump on board just because they think its cool, but jesus mary joseph of christ and moses, this is a good enough reason to switch to apple, then take a shotgun to every vista copy ever made and shoot each one individually and then burn them in a bonfire for no less than 200 hours while laughing maniacally.

I have been fumed before with windows, but this has gone above and beyond. I need write permissions and it is literally impossible to do.

What can I do? Are there any other steps? Is there any solution for this mess?

Thanks
 

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What specific files or folders full paths are you trying to write to that Vista will not let you do so?
 

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The files contain the following extensions:
LSN, CRS, CFG, PCX, JBF, DAT, CAT, HIS

This file, is the file. Basically you should be able to download it and run it from Dos. If you are using Vista, you will need DOS-BOX.
ekiprep_full.zip

It runs, but requires write functionality which is not allowed, ergo it will not allow you to do anything. I have had it work on a vista machine before, but not now and not this machine.
 
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ridiculousvista said:
I should be given 1 billion USD from bill gates for this mess.

I literally tried everything I could to undo the READ ONLY from files, folders, and everything in between. I followed tutorials, I went into safety mode, I used the dos command prompt "CACLS files /e /p {USERNAME}:{PERMISSION}". I changed administrator options, I changed the registry, I literally did every last thing you can do that these sorry vista programmers put in place; yet STILL I can not WRITE TO A FILE!!! I really despise apple and the hipsters that jump on board just because they think its cool, but jesus mary joseph of christ and moses, this is a good enough reason to switch to apple, then take a shotgun to every vista copy ever made and shoot each one individually and then burn them in a bonfire for no less than 200 hours while laughing maniacally.

I have been fumed before with windows, but this has gone above and beyond. I need write permissions and it is literally impossible to do.

What can I do? Are there any other steps? Is there any solution for this mess?

Thanks
Click to expand...


:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: My friends say I like going to these extremes often



have you gone to the location I have attached
 

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ridiculousvista said:
:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: My friends say I like going to these extremes often
have you gone to the location I have attached
Click to expand...

;) haha. Oh yeah, I was fuming anti-vista guy this morning :)

As far as the method you posted. Yes I did try that method also. Perhaps there is a weird bug going on or something else. It is really strange because I do see other people working it out, and able to fix their write issues in the plethora of tutorials I went though. Maybe it is the program's error, since this error pops up when I try to run the program that I attached, "unable to write to file tmp.bat, please contact administrator" . Now the interesting thing is, I saw that message before, and was able to fix it on one of my machines by allowing write access, but this vista machine is not liking it one bit. Even when I select that individual file, rather than the folders containing it, and allow write access; and see that all of the permissions are granted for every user, I still receive the error.

Thanks for the help!
 

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So I guess doing a system restore is out of the question, have you tried to do a sfc scan to see if it will help fix the problem, if not you might want to give it a try.

Click Start...
In the searc box type CMD...
Go the the top of the popup list...
Right click the cmd.exe and run it as administrator...
When the command box appears type sfc /scannow...

After the scan if there are any error's then run it 3 more times. Just a thought

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
 

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