Unable to take ownership of file

[wcndave]

I am unable to take ownership of a file, it says "Access denied".

I have logged in as Administrator, and used the security -> advanced tab.

Any sure fire way to take ownership of a file?

Other files in the same directory are fine.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
What file ?
You can use this with caution
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

 

[wcndave]

The take ownership addon doesn't work. I already tried various things such as:

takeown /F “path to folder” /a /r /d y

on an administrator command prompt.

The file is just a 7z file created by another machine and copied over network.

If the global admin can't modify local files, what can I do!

 

[Bongo]

Here is how I take ownership and give myself permission, look at Post #6 of this thread will tell you how to do it http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/179502-basic-networking-information.html#post1525656
the end of that post shows how to rename and replace a system file you can ignore that.

Jerry