Windows 10 keeps changing drives and folders to Read-Only

Soldato
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Windows 10 keeps changing my drives and folders to Read Only (black square in Read-Only attributes) which is stopping some programs from working properly. If I manually de-select the read-only box (as Admin.) Windows changes it back to Read-Only almost immediately. It even seems to be changing all of the sub-folders (which only contain media and no system files) to read-only.

The Google-suggested fixes have not worked so far:
Changing attributes of the folder:
attrib -r +s drive:\<path>\<foldername>

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup
sfc /scannow


I have not seen this before, Windows 10 has been far more stable than previous versions of Windows. Does anyone know what could be causing this or how to fix? Thanks.
 
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