title: Is it possible to make a read only directory in windows XP?
body: <p>According to <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549</a> the read only attribute is typically used for reasons other than marking a folder as actually read-only.  Therefore it seems to me that it is not possible to make a directory read only in the same sense as linux using
  chmod a-w.</p>