Getting the following message under the status page under windows server 2008 r2 web edition:

http://localhost/index.php?q=admin/reports/status

The directory sites/default is not protected from modifications and poses a security risk. You must change the directory's permissions to be non-writable.

Tried tweaking the permissions with no luck. At one point, I added full permissions for everyone and it went away but that doesn't make sense.

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maybe posting how the directory permissions should like would be helpful.

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Title: The directory sites/default is not protected from modifications and poses a security risk. » is_writable() cannot be use to determine if a directory is writable (on Windows)
Version: 6.17 » 7.x-dev

That's just a new demonstration of Microsoft and PHP stupidity combined. I guess that you will discover that this directory now has the read-only flag set. PHP is definitely still a joke on Windows.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27609

Bumping to Drupal 7, we fix bugs (if we can) in the current development branch before considering backports.

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Cool thanks for the comment! WIMP users have been living with this since 5.x

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Same for me. In Windows you can't activate the read only flag for a folder using the GUI.