Hello all!
I've recently run into a problem. The folders in my user account are all switching over to read only.

Now as you can imagine this is causing real issues with save games for many of my games.

I am using Windows 10 64 bit professional.

I've tried altering permissions, tried changing the folder away from read only, it keeps immediately switching back.

I've run spybot and now I'm running a full scan(kapersky). That should finish sometime in the next couple of days.

I've done some reading and everything keeps saying it was a windows 10 change.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Well.
You could try taking administrative control from within Windows, but what I would do is something more aggressive, by using an external OS (A Linux live system, in this case) and just forcibly alter the permissions outside of Windows. I'm not sure there's a way to make it so that your Windows user could read/write, but deny system shenanigans.

Alternately, I'd throw this in the pile of camel breaking straws and just switch to Linux entirely, which I've been doing since 2012 fulltime.

I smell some low-end virus of some kind. Or just some game or something that has gone rogue. Could also be an antivirus going rogue. Is it all subordinate folders or just certain ones?

As a side note, you seem to be browsing the forums just fine. Usually the file cache for a browser is also in the user subfolders.

Is read only actually checked or is it a black box in the checkbox?

Okay, so I did some research and it is a bug in one specific game, pillars of eternity.

It appearing to be read only is just something windows 10 does and was not the culprit.

I did the actions on this link and it fixed the issues that Pillars of eternity was having.

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/73912-save-game-fix/

That is what I suspected. Unless the box is actually ticked with a checkmark, everything isn't read only, but you can go through file by file and never find it because Win 10 marks everything as "kinda read-only"

Every time I read something like this, I get shocked how Microsoft never once took the innovations of other systems to the T; especially regarding file permissions. This is something that as far as I can tell, even the Amiga could do to the granularity required.

You can do it but in Windows 10 it is tedious, time consuming and complex ... there is nothing it hasn't to offer other OS's do. Either you try to take ownership of a file or folder, which sometimes just doesn't work no matter how often you assign yourself as owner, tick all the stupid boxes, apply changes, you can create/unlock a super-administrator account which should grant unlimited access, you could use the power shell in administrator mode and ICACLS to set permissions which works kind of like chmod does in Linux, or you make use of the group policy editor to assign folder and file permissions, which usually works.

That's Windows for you. :-)

Well. That's also why I gave up on Windows back in November 2016.