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Old November 28th 17, 07:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:42:55 -0600, Wildman wrote:

I was being respectful toward frequent contributor "Paul", who has
related his experience that just looking around caused one of his
systems to be unbootable into Windows, unless I'm misunderstanding what
he said. But yes, at least in my case, just looking around has never
caused me any issues.


I mean no disrespect either but, I sand by what I
said. "Mucking around" does not occur as long as
the file system remains read-only. Period.


"Read Only" means nothing for a folder. Something got screwed up on my
Win98 machine, so anything I downloaded was going to a some stupid
folder that was buried inside of "doicuments and settings". The files
were supposed to go to D:\DOWNLOAD. I reset this on my browser and
somehow it kept sending the files to that stupis folder. I deleted that
unwanted folder, but it would be recreated again. So, I made that folder
a READ ONLY folder, thinking I couold not write to it, so my browser
would ask me where to put the download file. WRONG. Read Only means
nothing on a folder. The downloads still went there.

I finally fixed it by reinstalling the browser.

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