Cannot change read-only, permissions or ownership of files

Hiya

Was playing a game recently and wanted to mod it. Found I didn't have permission to save changes to a notepad document. Checked if it was read only and it was, so I went to the game folder and unchecked the read only box in properties. It asked for permission, I gave it, spent a few seconds going through all the files in the folder it was in and then I clicked OK. Still couldn't save the file, and found that the Read Only box had been REHIGHLIGHTED.

So I go to Properties / Security and notice a few things. There is only one user account on this computer and it's an admin account, yet there are 5 accounts here, CREATOR OWNER, SYSTEM, Administrators, Users and TrustedInstaller. Don't know what that's all about. Anyway I couldn't change their permissions to full control. So I went to Ownership, and added the Administrators account as the owner, before it was some other account that wasn't any of the above.

Now I could add the full controls to all the accounts which I did. The problem persisted, the Read-Only checkbox would rehighlight after I unchecked it, apply, and OK. So I tried changing the owner to my User account. The problem persisted.

If I go to Security, Advanced, Permissions, I try to add Full Control to any of the accounts, but what it does is it creates a second copy of that account with full controls that I can remove, while the User account which has Read-Only permissions stays as an unremovable account. So I get a User account with full control and a User account with limited control. And the problem persists.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Open Notepad with elevated privileges.
(Start > Notepad > Right click on the notepad shortcut > Run as admin......)

Navigate to the file to be changed from within Notepad.
(File > Open > Navigate to the file)

Let us know if that works.