From: "Geo." 

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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