pyotr filipivich wrote:
Art Todesco on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:56:27 -0500
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 12/12/2018 10:38 AM, Art Todesco wrote:
On 12/12/2018 10:27 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Art Todesco
writes:
I think it was the latest MS rollout today. Everything on my
computer, both C: and D: have been made read only. And I can't seem
to fix it. I've tried to change permissions and it just goes through
and seems to change, however, the next time you access any folder or
file, it goes back to read only. Any ideas on how to get back to
normalcy?

AskWoody says "December 2018 Patch Tuesday is under way" and
"MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an
immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don't do it."

If you're pretty convinced it _is_ the update (I see three - a .net
one, a system one, and the usual MSRT), have you tried a System
Restore?

No I haven't ... will do that next. Also, I can't even change the name
of any file on my data drive, d:, as it complains, "Unknown User"!
What's that all about?

I did a System Restore to eliminate this morning's update and now, all
seems to be fine. Very weird. Of course, I haven't checked every
single file, etc., but the ones I had problems with after the update,
seem to be ok. Thanks for all the advice.

Make a backup of every file you don't want to lose.

But I don't think that's practical for this case (nor would it help). He
really either needs to use System Restore, or an image or clone backup, to
resolve this kind of thing (that got screwed up by a windows update).
Simply
backing up individual files won't do it unless I've misread something here.