How To Take Ownership Of Administrative Files and Folders On Windows 10/8/7
How To Take Ownership Of Administrative Files and Folders On Windows 10/8/7
How To Take Ownership Of Administrative Files and Folders On Windows 10/8/7.
If you’ve ever been denied access to a file or folder in Windows, chances are you need to take ownership of them with your user account. Here’s how.
In Windows, a user that has ownership of a file or folder has implicit rights to change permissions on that object. That user is also always allowed to access the file or folder—even when other permissions seemingly contradict that access. When you create a file or folder, the user account under which you’re logged in automatically gets ownership.
But you might occasionally run into a situation where you need to take ownership of a file or folder. Maybe you’ve got files or folders that were created by a user account that has since been deleted. Maybe you’ve got a hard drive from another PC that you’re working on. Or maybe you just need access to a particular system file—like “notepad.exe”— so you can apply a hack. Whatever your reason, here’s the official way to take ownership of a file or folder. And once you’ve learned how to do it, why not make it even easier and add a “Take Ownership” command right to your context menu?
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).
Bro very very thankful to you……i just lost access to a folder containing some important data due to changing the owner…and i didn’t know how to get access to it again..but your vid helped me very much in order to take the ownership of that file or folder again.
Thank you so much 🙂
you deserve it thanks a lot
Kind of garbled there but this helped me get STEP 1: Access to my own shit, then STEP 2: Able to turn on permissions on everything. For some reason Microsoft does NOT MAKE IT CLEAR YOU NEED TO GO INTO 5 ADVANCED MENUS TO GRANT YOURSELF ACCESS LOL.
thank you
This, although you think would be dated, tutorial still works! I went to download a zip file, that being an amp simulator plugin, because it was free and open source, I decided to download it from another website, it wasn’t even sketchy at all. When I downloaded the file and unzipped it, there were no dialog boxes for me to even had given what I downloaded permission to run as admin. Had there been any red flags I would never had installed it and continued in the process. It’s sad to think there is someone out there that took something open source and riddle it with whatever it was to take power as admin. I scoured the internet to find the right tutorial to fix this, but none of them were, some of them wanted me to run scripts, but it was overtly complicated compared to this way to regain power as admin. Thanks a lot!
I still cant change the owner… what to doo 😭😭
thank you so much i thought i ended my pc cus i had no full control anymore and just…..
thank you 🙂
can someone help me it just says permission denied when i try to change owner.
When i click change it doesnot show anything
SAVED ME YET AGAIN
My name is Victor. I am a college student and I currently have an issue with my laptop that I have been unable to solve. I enjoyed your video and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice.
My issue is with antimalware service executable. It is hogging the cpu running at 20%+ usage anytime the laptop is on. I tried excluding the file and that did not work. I followed your exact steps in your video in hopes of taking ownership and deleting the file (MsMpEng). The only issue I have in following your video is what happens after clicking on "change" in the advanced security settings window. After I click change, nothing happens. The change button turns grey and then I can no longer click on it. I’m not sure why this happens. If the select user or group box would pop up then maybe I could change the ownership of MsMpEng and then delete it. Does anybody have any advice?
Thank you
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Ah yes it works thanks man
Thank you for Teaching
This saves my ass bro! Thank you so much!
when I left click the permissions in the advanced security settings they come up grey and unclickable is there a solution?
Many thanks 🌹🌷🌹
It’s really helpful for me🙋
Thank you so Much.
It Really Worked.
Now I’m Fearless.
Worked well. Thank you.
Tale a long time doing one file at a time.
how to take file ownership on external hardisk?
It’s weird that all my hard drives have SYSTEM as owner. I’m the only user and I should have admin priviliges.
Bro, I keep looking for vids to try and help me but I just can’t seem to find literally any video that can, I am so damn tired
Hi, I am trying to take ownership of a folder in my external HDD but it’s taking very very long and not getting completed even after 2 hours. Please advise the course of action in this scenario. Thanks
what do i do if i want to reset all the owner changes i did
Love the intro
My local disk C is locked by the administrator by mistake , How can I unlock & get access to the files in it ? The local disk is completely gone please help.
Brother by mistake i have denied all permission including read and removed all the user .now i am unable to open local disk c .help me
Yessssssssss thank youuuuu
Im trying to put somthing in Program files but i still cant open it
The problem is that, as was the same in this video, all the options (checkboxes) are grayed out. It would be helpful to have a video that shows how you can actually make a selection (un-gray the boxes) so you can actually MAKE a change.
im not even allowed to view it
can u plz tell me how to fix THE FUCKIN code error 2202 when try installing A FUCKIN msi apps in windows 10 .. Can u plz .. thank you .. bye
I just say million of thanks & love from bottom of my heart 💓 , Bro this video really saved me from a painful "Windows problems". Now Ohhh 🥳🤗
everything is greyed out. i cant click on full control on anything
security tab not available, what should I do?
I have remove system and authenticated users, is that ok?
iight bro so how do you give them all full control cause its not enabled
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Thank you!
Thank you so much i almost gonna die…
OMG! Thank you so much bro!!!
Whenever i press ‘change’ or ‘change permission’ the tab that opens for you does not open for me and it simply turns gray, any ideas? Please help i am dealing with "anti malware service executable" service
Any tutorial for how to take ownership of system owned files? Im trying to delete windows defender because it still uses half my ram despite having it turned off
I got as far as all those OKs. the page on which I have to check if ALL APPLY was not filled in with those items shown on YOUR page?? Plus it still says I am not administrator so I still can’t delete temp files?? Any suggestions? Thanx
Hi can you please tell me why do I have 53000 files in roaming Microsoft crypto RSA folder ?
when i press "find now" it finds quite a lot of principals and some names seem odd ? not sure why tho
Thank you!!!