Unsetting "Read Only" Files in Win 7

[croiduire]

I just "upgraded" to Win 7 and it is driving me nuts! I have full administrator rights enabled, I theoretically have all the necessary permissions to change files to editable, I unclick read only, the system seems to accept it, and when I immediately go to make changes to a file, the infinitely damnable OS has reset the folder/files to read only again. I have enabled edit rights all the way back to the whole C drive, and every step in between, I've been haunting the Win 7 answer forums, and nada...all I've been able to discover is that it's an extremely common problem that Macrosuck is trying to palm off as a "feature" instead of fixing. Has anyone figured out a work around? I want to have custom modular stairs and invisible walls, like I used to!

Edit: Nevermind. I figured it out--or, rather, my geeken son did. If anyone else is having this problem, go to the start menu, right click Notepad, select "Run as administrator" and open the Script document from there. It worked.

[jolrei]

Yes, Win7 has all sorts of "I'm smarter than you are" features, which mainly seem focused on making sure you don't do things that you want to do.  It consistently wants to ask and re-ask me whether I really want to let uTorrent go through the firewall, even though I have set an exception.  Full administrator rights means nothing to this OS.

[bowrain]

I just turn off UAC. Never had any of those problems.

[MrsCrumplebottom]

I like 7 better than Vista myself.

"Of COURSE I have administrator approval!  I AM the admin!" 

Get that all the time when deleting/moving files for clean templates.

[Mootilda]

If you avoid installing things into the Program Files folder, you can avoid some of that foolishness.  Microsoft has decided that Program Files should never be touched by human hands.