OK, back to topic. This is really giving me the shits now. [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]
I went and changed ALL folders to unset the read-only attribute (ie to switch it off). It was very time consuming as I had to go to each root folder (I couldn't do it at the drive level) and click Properties and then untick the little box for Read Only. I thought that would fix the problem. Except that after rebooting my computer it's all changed back to Read-Only again!!!
Anyone know of a way to fix this? I'd really not want to have to do a reinstall - I have so many applications on this PC and can't really afford to frig around with this.
Felix, I'm using SpyBot and AdAware.
One more thing - my laptop didn't have that many issues until I (foolishly) decided to "optimise" (using the word very loosely) it with first Iolo System Mechanic 6 (the WORST optimiser ever - it totally buggered up my system) and then with Norton System Works. Since then I've been having RPC failures when I shut off/restart, plus my boot times take so much longer now, and then this problem with the read-only folders...