On 20 Nov 2006 at 16:27, Laurel Schmalz wrote:

> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows XP with Works.
> I saved a Word file from desktop on a thumb USB drive to rewritable CD. I
> can access the file on the CD on my laptop but when I try to change
> something it tells me I have to have permission from the Administrator. I
> am the only Administrator on both computers. What does this mean?

  The file is marked "read only"; this is entirely normal on a CD(!).

  IF the file were copied to the hard drive, an administrator (you) could 
change it to read-write and so allow it to be changed.  The software on the 
laptop is assuming that's the case, without realizing that the drive is a CD 
and so you can't change that copy of the file to read-write.
 
David Gillett

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