This post is for all those who are having trouble with configure.php as writable eventhough the permissions are read only on a windows server running php5

move the configure.php to /includes/configure/configure.php

change the path in the /includes/application_top.php now pointing to the configure.php location as above

set read only permission to the /includes/configure folder

I don't know what the repercussions are but here is how I solved my problem. I will do some testing on the site to verify everything works.

Can on all the guru's shed some light on this ?