Start|All Programs|Accessories Right-Click Windows Explorer and choose Run As Administrator. If the username you're logged in as actuallly does have full Administrator privileges you should get a popup that asks "do you want to" and all you have to do is click YES. That instance of Win Explorer will then have full Admin authority.

If you still can't change the Read Only flag for the folder, then the folder most likely doesn't belong to your computer, or belongs to another user who hasn't given full sharing permissions. The "honest" way to work around that is to get the other user to give permissions.

As Stilly says, if you can read it you can copy it, and copying it to a new folder with a different name that you own should let you change the attributes in the new folder, after which you can copy it back or change the name to the original folder name if you want.

In Win7, almost any changes you make to any folder will result in the "Read Only" attribute being reset. I think Microsoft thinks that's a "feature" but I see it as more of a blunder; but once you're the one who saved it with a new name the folder usually "belongs to you and to your computer" and you should be able to unset its attributes whenever you need to. When you use Win Explorer to change an attribute, be sure to "apply to folder and all contents," but be aware that changing even one attribute on a "deep folder" with lots of subs can take hours to finish flipping all the flags.

John