Read only attribute cannot be changed

Question

Half of my games are not working and I found the cause to be my documents folder being read only.

I can't change it via manually and cmd run as administrator is giving me access denied when trying to change attributes. I honestly don't know what to do anymore. Problem appeared few days ago and a lot of things on my PC stopped working properly or working at all.

Am I going to reinstall windows? And why windows just decided that it is read only?

Answer 1

Do this from the command line:

Open Start, type: CMD

Right click CMD

Click Run as administrator

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

TAKEOWN /F D:\ /R /D Y

Once you have taken ownership, then you have to set the permissions; for this, you use ICACLS:

ICACLS "D:" /reset /T

Restart then check if you can access your Documents again.

Also...

Open Windows Defender Security Center

Click Virus & threat protection

Click Virus & threat protection settings

Scroll down to Controlled folder access

Toggle it off

Also in Windows Defender Security Center

Open App & browser control

Set 'Check apps & files' to off

Answer 2

Thank you very much! Turns out it was windows defender problem. Everything is working now! :)