Do all your files and folders open in Read-only mode on Windows 11/10? Some Windows users have reported that all their files and folders are marked as Read-only. Whenever they open a file or folder, ...

When you back up your company's computers, the backup program may set the read-only attribute on the backup files. If you restore files to a computer, such as HTML files from the company's website, ...

Q: I’m running Windows 11 and using File Explorer to view pictures as extra-large icons. I right-click on a thumbnail and select rotate right or left, and get a pop-up box that reads, “You cannot ...

Locate the file Right-click on it Under Attributes, select Hidden. The file will get hidden. To see it again, you can use this method to show Hidden files. You should know one thing. If the checkbox ...

A computer's file permission settings determine who is able to access its files and who can make changes to them. The owner or administrator of a Mac computer can specify the permissions for any file, ...

It's easy to miss that you've opened a read-only file in Visual Studio: When you open a file you can't change, a tiny little lock icon appears on the tab of the editor window to the right of the ...

Researchers from Mimecast reported this week that attackers are hiding malicious payloads in Excel files sent by e-mail by using a standard Excel feature. It turns out that automatic encryption of ...

Attackers can attempt to hide malicious payloads in Excel files sent by e-mail by using a standard Excel feature, according to a Tuesday post by Mimecast researchers. It turns out that automatic ...

With the read-only mode for the VS Code workbench, Microsoft notes that in some scenarios, it can be helpful to explicitly mark some files or folders as read-only. An example cited was a folder or ...

Chris: How do I remove the read-only attribute on the of all folders in Windows 2003? I’ve read Bill Boswell’s article, "Rally 'Round the Tri-Mode Flag" and am still having some trouble. Got a Windows ...

Apple's forthcoming iPadOS 15 will provide partial support for the NTFS format, bringing the mobile operating system in line with macOS. Files on iPadOS is unable to move, modify or write files in the ...

An odd issue to be sure, in a niche use case. There is an office we just started working with and they have some new machines running Windows 11, alongside some older ones also running Windows 11.