How can I open a file as read-only from Windows Explorer?
- by Daniel Daranas
Is there an easy way to open a file as read-only from Windows Explorer?
My inmediate interest is in a Microsoft Access file. I am doing some sanity checks in old MS Access databases and I see that their date is automatically updated when I open them. I don't like this, since it will look like all the old files have been modified today.
I am working with Windows XP.
Update: As Yoda said, "Do, or do not. There is no try." In my case, it was "do not". I ended up copying the entire (big) folder tree to MyDocuments, and then opening all the databases from there.