How to take "ownership" of files and folders?

[sandwedger]

I have tried all sorts of solutions to take ownership of various files and folders that the designers of Win7 have determined that should be protected from incompetent owners like myself. I like Win7, but this feature really aggravates me. There are some program files that I really need to copy onto an external hard drive for backup purposes, but this nanny feature won't allow me to do that. I must be missing some simple step, because every solution I look at tells me that it's easy to fix this problem, but I am obviously doing something wrong. I'm stuck.

 

[xwb]

Try the takeown command from the command prompt.

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

This little reg hack looks funky

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

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[goombawaho]

Why don't you provide the path/files that you are after so we can better understand?

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[ChrisHirst]

RC the folder -> Properties -> [ Advanced ...} -> Owner -> [ Edit ... ] Select the owner from the list, check the "replace owner ..." box -> [OK] -> -> [OK] -> [OK] -> [OK]

Chris.

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[OfficeAnimal]

I have done that and I have full control.
I am the only user on the machine and the administrator.
I still get told I don't have permission to do things.
Sometimes I come back tomorrow and I CAN do what I wanted.

Sometimes I also despair of Windows 7.

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