Hi Barb Unless you have these files on a CD-RW, they will be read only. Copy them to your hard drive and then change the attributes there. Regards NY George ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:17 PM Subject: [SP] Win XP anyone? If anyone has XP (my PC crashed --permanently) does he/she know how to make Read Only files stop being Read Only. They contain the work I brought on CD-R from RI to CA this winter and I want to get them on my new PC. I changed a folder and it asked if I wanted this to apply to the folder or also to the files and folders within it. I said yes and it told me access was denied. What next................ Desperate Barb Austin, who never, ever wanted XP in the first place.