From: Chris Robinson 

Yeh - that'd probably work - get in there before XP has chance to grab it. It's
OK now though - I'll remember this in future.

Chris.

"Geo." wrote:

> You could try copying it to a new file called swapfi1e and delete the orig
> then reboot to see if that works. (note the 1 instead of l) it may be that
> on reboot it found a file called swapfile and so tried to protect it since
> it would contain kinda sensitive information.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:3E2FB256.6E07F4B9{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > ah right - interesting - can this be changed so that XP doesn't see this
> as a
> > system file?
> >
> > "Geo." wrote:
> >
> > > "Chris Robinson"
 wrote in message
> > > news:3E2E7B9D.1EAABF1E{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > >
> > > > encryption program), XP reset all the attributes - even
though the
> file
> > > > had been renamed and the attributes removed.
> > >
> > > XP (and 2K) identify a file by it's fileID not by it's name,
so XP still
> saw
> > > it as the swapfile and there is probably some security service running
> that
> > > prevents access to the swap file.
> > >
> > > Geo.
> >

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