Vista - Context Menu - Take Ownership

Your welcome Thales. Glad to hear that it worked for you. You can check the Run this program as an administrator box in Compatibility mode so you do not have to right click on the Ogre program everytime you want to open it. You can see how here if needed in step 7.

Compatibility Mode

Shawn

i just wanted to say thank you for the ownership reg file, it proved very useful to me!

Your welcome taco-man, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm glad to hear that it was helpful to you.

Shawn

EXCEPTIONALLY helpful. Thank you!

For those who don't want the trick on the context menu and find a bit complicated the way to do it manually, they can do it this way:

Copy those 2 lines in notepad and save as for example: takeownership.cmd
Put the file in your windows directory.

takeown /f %1 /r
icacls %1 /grant yourusername:F /t

Now when you want to take ownership of a file or folder, run the command prompt as administrator and type in:

takeownership C:\folder for which you want to take ownership (or file)

If the entry is a folder, you will have ownership on all files within the folder.

Your welcome Sabmac, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

This was fantastic, thanks a lot for this!

Your welcome Admles, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

I get to the point of gaiing ownership of the file but still cannot delete it... what can i do please

Hi Bukavu,

What is the name and location of the file that you are trying to delete?

The file may be in use. You might try booting into Safe Mode and see if you can delete it from there. This tutorial will show you how to boot into Safe Mode if needed.

Safe Mode

Shawn