Vista - Take Ownership of file

Is there anything I could do in the registry?

I'm sorry pjjppj, but with what you have already tried without success indicates a more serious problem that cannot be easily fixed without a reinstall.

I cant lose any of my files, they are all school work

Open an elevated command prompt and revoke all permissions on your account (if any) and the admin group.

Then give the admin group full control and do a restore.

EDIT: Just to let you know. If you have denied access to either users or everyone thinking this will secure your computer, it will a bit. But as long as your account is a member of ANY group with a DENY permission no matter what, you will be denied access. You should actualy grant full access to all groups and deny access to no groups and then restore.

how??:P

I think this command will revoke all deny permissions for admins.

"icacls c:\* /remove:d administrators"

If that doesnt work run these...

"icacls c:\* /remove:d users"
"icacls c:\* /remove:d everyone"
"icacls c:\* /remove:d guests"

Then try again.

After you run the above run this;

"Icacls c:\* /grant administrators:f"

Didnt work

Do you get an error?


Plan B,

net localgroup "backup operators" /add %username%

Run that and see if you can access the files now.

Access is denied

I think I know what the problem is then, You didnt ELEVATE the command prompt.

Rightclick > Run as administrator

Then go back to the post about icacls and do that again