Take Ownership of file

Your welcome David, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Hi and thanks for the great tips,

Before i attempt to take ownership i will explain what im about to do:
i have both vista 64 business and XP 32 installed on the same HDD (dual booting) and everything works perfectly.
Alot of the programs save their settings under document and settings/user folder which i need to access ( mainly need access from vista to xp settings ) which ofcurse need to change ownership to access. Now here is the question, if i change the ownership of that folder under vista, will i be able to access it again under xp?

ofcurse i could just copy the settings somewhere else under xp, the restart into vista and copy them to my settings folder but thats the long way!!

not sure if this wil be answered here, what about accessing vista files ( program settings ) under xp ?

thanks in advance,
Base.

Waterscent,

To be safe, I would copy the files from XP while logged into XP and copy them onto the Vista desktop, and the same with files from Vista to XP. This way the permissions will not get messed up by accident. From there, you can place them were you like while in the other OS.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi,
No need to take ownership
When you are in Vista for example, you go in your XP/Documents and settings and in the security tab of the properties you just add a new user (you) with enough rights to achieve what you want.
It works as on one of my computers running Vista/xp, i do it this way.

Thanks man, this thing rocks

Finaly I can easly tell Vista to "Shut the **** up" and change files the way I want them

(and sorry for the language, Vista been irking me)
do you want to deleat?
-yes

are you sure
-yes

are you really sure?
-YES I AM

do you want to copy it instead?
-NO WTF DELEAT!

do you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin?
-SURE WATEVER! DELEATE IT

the file is too big for the Recycle Bin, do you want to perminatly deleat it?
-OMFG WHY DID you ask me to put it in the bin in the first place!!!!

Do you want to deleat it perminatly?
-YEEESSSS!!!!

You need permision from administrator, continue?
-CONTINUE!

Permition denied.
-$#%^&*(&^%$#%*$(%)^ Vista I WILL END YOU!!!

(*some humor for this thread* ^-^)


Thanks man, I may just like vista.... eventualy... >.>.....

LOL Seliverus. Your welcome, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Thank you for the help every one!
seems even pro users need pro^2 users help in vista !!!!

Hi.

I'm to this site and I discovered it while 'googling' help to this very problem. Unfortunately, I have another problem while trying to use CMD. I don't know if I'm typing it all in right, but it says that 'takedown' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I've tried to type it correctly as far as following the example goes. Anyway, heres what I've typed in /takedown/f c:/Program Files/Kaspersky Lab/ I'm pretty damn sure that its typed wrong.

Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi Dan, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It should be:
takeown/f c:/Program Files/Kaspersky Lab

instead of:
/takedown/f c:/Program Files/Kaspersky Lab/


You might also look at Method One for a Context menu addition that will do this automatically for you. It is a lot more convenient.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Still not working! Same problem if you do not put a / in front of takedown. Anyway, I got "the system cannot find the path specified" "The filename, Directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" I might do the step you reccomended, I still must be doing something wrong.

What is the difference between add or take ownership?

Ok...downloaded take ownership. Right clicked on the Kaspersky Folder and clicked take ownership. CMD did its thing, went to delete it, and the same problem :O