"IDEA" RECURSE A DRIVE TREE REMOVING WRITE PROTECTION LIKE EMPTY FOLDER REMOVERS

[BONZ]

I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA  IF OR HOW DIFFICULT THIS WOULD BE. BUT I HAVE SEARCHED LONG & HARD FOR A UTIL TO SOLVE MY NEED. I NEED IT TO SEARCH FOR FILES/FOLDERS THAT ARE WRITE PROTECTED AND OFFER A TREE LIST OF FOLDER (SOME NICE LITTLE CHECK BOXS TO SELECT THE FOLDERS TO PROCESS WOULD BE REALLY EXECELLENT) TO COMFIRM REMOVING THE "R". THANKS FOR LISTENING!!  

[MilesAhead]

I think your only hope of doing this with check boxes is to find a file manager with the feature.  You should be able to remove read only attribute on all files on a drive from the command line using an administrator command prompt.  Just CD to the root as in
CD \ <enter>
attrib -r *.* /S <enter>

But obviously I'm not going to test it on my system since there's a couple hundred thousand files to mess with if something goes wrong. 

If you have more than one partition in the command prompt just enter the drive letter
with a colon to change drives
f: <enter>
to go to drive f  etc..

[MilesAhead]

This utility may be worth a look:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bulk_file_changer.html