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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is urging users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app now to avoid losing editing and sync functionality when the legacy app becomes read-only...

This file is taking so much of my storage. It is in the Temp folder. It just came into my system when I was experimenting with windows sandbox. Inside it is just some files you would find on a C: Drive, but deleting it is a hassle, I even tried taking permission but it could not delete it. I...

Hi, Trying to share a folder with a second user on my Win11 computer, giving them read only access. The folder is located in "Public Documents". Playing around with the Permissions I can set Read Allow, Write Deny, but this still allows the user to delete stuff. If I set Modify Deny to...

Hello, thank you for your help. I have a PC, and a NAS. The NAS has a file, when I try to use that file in a program, it says "The media is write protected." I am an admin Win user, and when right click > properties > security, it says I have write permission. When I copy file from NAS to PC...

Sadly, no solution has been presented so I'm reposting my request for help. After an automatic update ALL of my directories are now Read Only. Because I work from home and this is a new PC I'm unable to install some of my programs due to this.... pain (to say the least). I have been online for...

I'm preparing to reformat my PC with Win10. Currently, all the directories are Read Only due to Windows updating my PC over the past week. Rather than continuing to attempt to change the settings for each one of these directories (which they all just switch back) I have decided to just...

Ok, I'm not enjoying Win10 at all at this point. Every day something new happens that causes me issues. Today, ALL of my directories are suddenly Read Only and I'm not able to update certain Word docs. I've gone online to see how to resolve the Read Only issue but it seems that everybody...

File upload application causes browser to freeze. Can't insert or attach files to emails and can't upload files from email or internet. This is happening in both Edge and Firefox with both AOL and Yahoo mails. I've tried disabling read only and clearing cookies and cache to no avail. This...

Hi I am the administrator of my system. I want to delete old repertories. But they have the attribute "only reading" and when I delete this attribute, it comes back

Hi. I recently lost 100,000 personal pictures and a lot of music I wrote for many years. I lost it to a ransomware, with a DOCM extension. I looked online and it said it was new and the encryption was done repeatedly up to 10 times deep. I happened to have ALL my backup usb hard drives attached...

I work at a computer repair shop and I finally came across something I cannot get around. A customer brought in a Microsoft Surface Book that has BitLocker protection on it. Windows is corrupt and I am using a windows 10 disk to repair it. I have his BitLocker recovery key so I can unlock the...

I'll keep this brief because Windows has wasted a fair portion of my life for various reasons. Is there no utility that cuts through the stupidity of not being able to TURN OFF "Read-only" folders and files contained within MY file system FORCING them to STAY write-able? I ask about a utility...

Idk wth is going on but its getting extremely annoying... I have a folder "neard" in c:\ so its c:\neard\ and its a lamp stack. every time I try to delete a folder/file in c:\neard\www it get a administrator required and then it still fails. I've tried setting the permissions and they all show...

Something is suddenly changing my files to Read Only. It seems to be affecting Office 2016 files. What's causing this and how do I stop it?

hi all, i've been a long time lurker of this site and i really respect this community because there are just so many I.T experts. this is my question: How can i make a folder in Windows 10 Pro "read-only"? i just want to be able to make it so that my .doc files, .mp3 files, .jpg files and so...

Dear all, I am trying to find a way how to block USB, but only read from USB. To be more specific, I want to allow copy from computer to USB, but deny copy from USB to computer. Is there any way how to do it with Microsoft tools or free programs? Thank you in advance LostInHistory

When I start MS build-in Event Viewer, then go to Custom Views--->Adminstrative Events and right click and select "Properties" then all the parameters are disabled resp. read-only. See attached snapshot Why? As far as I remember they were editable in the past. I could (de-)select e.g...

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Is there any common way to lock the key bindings for a program? The trouble is, I have a PC game which I use often and my younger brother constantly changes the Key Bindings and doesn't revert them back when he's finished playing. So is there any possible way to lock these Keybindings so that...