Jan, This is an example but there are some older applications that still create ini files in C:\Windows and if users are standard user on the system the application will not run properly so we allow modify to that file. I know the folders are generally protected. However in this case if I try and edit the file with pspad, with smart locking enabled, I first get can't create lock file - which is expected, but then pspad turns on read only attribute and leaves it that way. It seems like PSPad just assumes the file should be read only because it couldn't create the lock or it is because it thinks everything in C:\windows is read only rather that knowing what the permissions are actually on the file. Pete
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