Take Ownership Shortcut

Just curious as I am wanting to learn about the behaviors of Windows 7 as I never played with Vista prior to this.

How is it that some folders/files get messed up with ownership issues?

For example, I am dual booting win xp and 7 and have another massive partition for files/media. I decided to reformat and install win 7 again. Upon doing so, I had ONE issue with a folder I keep all my music in on the massive partition. my mediamonkey couldn't access the files and when I navigated there I noticed a little lock symbol on the folder. manually I took ownership (I am now going to install this hack!) and this seemed to have fixed the issue.

But how did that happen?

Thanks for this registry tweak btw! great work.

To A320

For example, I am dual booting win xp and 7 and have another massive partition for files/media. I decided to reformat and install win 7 again. Upon doing so, I had ONE issue with a folder I keep all my music in on the massive partition. my mediamonkey couldn't access the files and when I navigated there I noticed a little lock symbol on the folder. manually I took ownership (I am now going to install this hack!) and this seemed to have fixed the issue.

1st It is not a HACK. it is well documented in Microsoft Scripts.

Open cmd prompt as admin
type TAKEOWN /?

thanks again....

Snuffy said:

Seth81 said:

Registered just to thank you for this great hack, really needed this to delete an old WIN7 installation since I've tried everything and no luck.
Thanks again!

easy way to remove windows.old

Windows.old Folder - Delete

1. my computer
2. right click c:
3. scrowl down to properties
4. disc cleanup
5. clean up system files
6. more options
7. down to system restore and shadow copies.
THIS will removed Windows.old and all othe other unneeded files.
(The Microsoft way.)
8. click cleanup - and away we go....
ENJOY

thanks..

I'm currently trying to remove the read-only attributes for my Windows XP Mode base file so that I can merge the differencing disks in order to import into VMLite. I followed the intructions, but after I take ownership, I get the access denied message and click continue, then I get the Error Applying Attributes message shown below. Any thoughts?