Jan, Please investigate. 1) You have Smart file locking enabled. 2) You have say test.ini in C:\Windows with modify permission 3) You open in PSPad and PSPad complains about not been able to create the lock file, which is normal, but... 4) PSpad changes the file attributes to read only and leaves them that way afterwards. Pete
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