How does Cubecart get around the Vista 'read only' settings on localhost ?? for things like the image folders ??

Ive just installed another script on my localhost and it keeps telling me to set the folder to 2777 if not then 777 should work, all the security settings are ticked for full control but Vista wont allow the read only box to be unticked (just Google for it, youll see lots of threads in this) so I cant use the folder.

Using Wampserver on Vista, I never experienced such problems. The only issue I had was that wampserver didn't allow Skype to run concurrently.

Wamp is what im using ??