Take Ownership Shortcut

Brink · Jan 18, 2012

bobtucson said:
I know this is an old thread, but could you tell me what exactly happens re: tutorial, the warning about having to re-install windows. I have used the "take ownership" and now am having trouble with losing my admin privilege. I have been fighting this for awhile now and would like to know if this is the problem.

Hope to hear from you, thanks

Hello Bob,

The warning is just to not take ownership of your Windows 7 C: drive since there is a chance that it could mess up access permission for Windows 7 and causing Windows 7 to not work properly.

What did you take ownership of?

bobtucson · Jan 19, 2012

Yikes, maybe I did screw up and do that. It seems that I have lost all admin privilege on my machine. I am totally a guest, not able to run anything that requires admin privilege. Not even sure when it started as only recently noticed problem. Can't even do a restore. Running out of ideas when I came here to post problem and just happened to re-read the "take ownership" instructions. If what is happening to me sounds like what you were warning of, then I must have done it.
bob

Brink · Jan 19, 2012

Are you able to do a system restore at boot instead?

bobtucson · Jan 19, 2012

I haven't tried that at boot. When I try it now I get the message "The service cannot be started because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
I will dig out the original installation disk and do the system restore from there. I'll post results tomorrow.

And thanks for pointing me to a course of action.
bob

Brink · Jan 19, 2012

You're welcome Bob. I hope it goes well.

bobtucson · Jan 19, 2012

Did a boot with system disk and then a restore. -SUCCESS- The restore point wasn't very long ago, last week of 2011, now I am wondering if the Windows updates installed very recently had anything to do with it. Some of the updates had "Framework" or Frame something in title. must have been 3 or 4 of them. Didn't pay much attention just let them fly.
Well I'm sure the machine will try to pick up those again, I'll just have to watch what happens.
I would like to set this up with better user accounts management. Do you have any links to correct way to do it.

I really want to thank you for your help....................................appreciate it. bob

Went to tutorials for user account management, should provide what I'm looking for.
thanks again, bob

Brink · Jan 19, 2012

You're most welcome Bob. To be safe you can create a restore point in case there's a problem after installing the updates again.

Usually, it's recommended to only install the updates that are selected automatically first, and keep checking for updates to install the ones checked. Afterwards, install the ones that are not checked one at a time. This way you will not have to worry about one update possibly conflicting with another.

leftygt · Jan 20, 2012

Hi

I tried both methods but nothing is working, I keep getting "access denied" everytime I try to change ownership. Its a folder that I had previously shared on the home network. I moved the content to a different drive but I'm still left with the folder - cant rename it, delete it, un-share it - so its a bit of a pain as its showing up on the network. I even tried "stopping the network" in task manager - still nothing. I'd format the drive if it was empty, but there is nearly 2tb of files on it so thats not really an option. Any help?

Brink · Jan 20, 2012

Hello Leftygt, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if using the free program Unlocker on it may be able to allow you to delete it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

leftygt · Jan 20, 2012

Hi Shawn

Thanks for your help.I tried unlocker, but its telling me there is no "unlocking handle"?

Brink · Jan 20, 2012

leftygt said:
Hi Shawn

Thanks for your help.I tried unlocker, but its telling me there is no "unlocking handle"?

You might see if temporarily moving the contents back to the original location may allow you to then be able to un-share and delete it.

If not, then I would recommend to go ahead and post this issue in the Network & Sharing forum area to see what we may be able to do to help with there it since it's not related with this tutorial. This way you will get more specific help with it.

neqabyhayaty · Feb 18, 2012

mistrymah · Feb 21, 2012

Thanks... it worked... was trying for since million years... ( I think So) thanks again...

Signman3 · Feb 23, 2012

THANKS A MILLION

I had problems with iTunes showing the error message (-42404) part of iTunes not installed correctly etc.
I was advised to look at your posting re this problem - I downloaded the TAKE OWNERSHIP prog, followed your instructions and PROBLEM SOLVED.
Many, many thanks - Apple offered no such advice - I was tearing my hair out.
WELL DONE ONCE AGAIN.
Regards
Signman3

nalbe · Mar 8, 2012

via cmd

Code:

 [MENTION=353699]echo[/MENTION] off
reg query "HKU\S-1-5-19\Environment"
If Not %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
 cls & echo Schadenfreude..
 Pause & Exit
)
Cls

echo  Take Ownership:
reg delete "HKCR\*\shell\runas" /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas"         /ve                        /d "Take Ownership" /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas"         /v "HasLUAShield"          /d ""               /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas"         /v "NoWorkingDirectory"    /d ""               /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas"         /v "Position"              /d "middle"         /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas\command" /ve                        /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /c /l & pause" /f
reg add "HKCR\*\shell\runas\command" /v "IsolatedCommand"       /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /c /l & pause" /f
 reg delete "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas"         /ve                     /d "Take Ownership" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas"         /v "AppliesTo"          /d "NOT (System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\Users\" OR System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\ProgramData\" OR System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\Windows\" OR System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\Windows\System32\" OR System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\Program Files\" OR System.ItemPathDisplay:=\"C:\Program Files (x86)\")" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas"         /v "HasLUAShield"       /d ""       /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas"         /v "NoWorkingDirectory" /d ""       /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas"         /v "Position"           /d "middle" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas\command" /ve                     /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /t /c /l /q & pause" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Directory\shell\runas\command" /v "IsolatedCommand"    /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /t /c /l /q & pause" /f
reg delete "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas" /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas"         /ve                     /d "Take Ownership" /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas"         /v "HasLUAShield"       /d ""               /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas"         /v "NoWorkingDirectory" /d ""               /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas"         /v "Position"           /d "middle"         /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas\command" /ve                     /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /c /l & pause" /f
reg add "HKCR\dllfile\shell\runas\command" /v "IsolatedCommand"    /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /c /l & pause" /f
 reg delete "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas"         /ve                     /d "Take Ownership" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas"         /v "AppliesTo"          /d "NOT C:"         /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas"         /v "HasLUAShield"       /d ""               /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas"         /v "NoWorkingDirectory" /d ""               /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas"         /v "Position"           /d "middle"         /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas\command" /ve                     /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /t /c /l /q & pause" /f
 reg add "HKCR\Drive\shell\runas\command" /v "IsolatedCommand"    /d "cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%%1\" /grant *S-1-3-4:F /t /c /l /q & pause" /f
reg delete "HKCR\exefile\shell\runas" /f
reg add "HKCR\exefile\shell\runas"         /v "HasLUAShield"    /d ""            /f
reg add "HKCR\exefile\shell\runas\command" /ve                  /d "\"%%1\" %%*" /f
reg add "HKCR\exefile\shell\runas\command" /v "IsolatedCommand" /d "\"%%1\" %%*" /f
:: or "/grant administrators:F" instead "/grant *S-1-3-4:F"

pause & exit

RalphShnelvar · Mar 10, 2012

This is truly wonderful.

For a while I was dual booting windows but the "older" version of Windows 7 was no longer needed.

Getting rid of the disk space was nearly impossible until I found this.

Thanks!

jobo123 · Apr 28, 2012

Hey guys, any idea where the reg file / install is and how one may go about altering the value for the maximum number of folders to perform Take Ownership on at once? I know your can just do a whole drive and wait that way, but its just a bunch of cmd operations, shouldn't be capped like that :/

Brink · Apr 28, 2012

Hello Jobo, and welcome to Seven Forums.

That would be the 15 selected limit that's universal in Windows 7. You can use the tutorial below to set this to be unlimited instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ing-fix-when-more-than-15-files-selected.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

jobo123 · May 1, 2012

Shawn, thats perfect... too easy :shock:

Cheers!

Brink · May 1, 2012

You're most welcome Jobo.

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