This tutorial will show you different ways to change the owner (take ownership) of a file, folder, drive, or registry key to any user or group in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to take ownership of an object. Do not change the owner of your Windows drive (ex: C: ).
Ownership can be taken or transferred in several ways. The current owner of an object can transfer ownership to another user or group. A member of the Administrators group can take ownership of an object or transfer ownership to another user or group—even if administrators are locked out of the resource according to the permissions.
Take ownership seems to miss alot of things and using the security feature in properties seem to make things worse. Going to safe mode and back fixed the start menu but alot of other persimmons are broken.
another problem is security settings (Ownership and Permissions). i noticed all the folders and files ownership changed to SYSTEM but I think the permissions didnt change, idk. as i know all drives are owned by SYSTEM by default. but the folders created in the drives by the user must be owned by same user. is there a way to reset the security ...
"Access is denied" after ownership gained and permissions set Windows 10. Trying to get on top of MS W10 ownership and permissions is something which I know from experience is bad for my mental health. But I am trying to understand what might be wrong here. I am simply trying to edit a .txt file in the C:\ directory.
Override TrustedInstaller ownership...? Hi, Before Windows update, I disabled Cortana by entering "AllowCortana" with value '0' in Registry then renaming the Cortana folder in SystemApps. When doing the update I forgot the renaming of the folder, so now got two Cortana folders in SystemApps.
The "Take Ownership" context menu will change the owner of an item to the current user and change its permissions to allow the current user full control access. If you are not able to change the owner and/or permissions of an item using the context menus above, then you may need to do so manually.
Take ownership and have all drives, folder and files open to everyone I have new win10 installed. How do I take ownership of all drives, folders and file on everything on computer?
When changing ownership, should I enable inheritances? And, after updating the templates, should I change owner back to TrustedInstaller? Thanks! I just use Winaero's solution. Here are two registry files. One adds Take Ownership to the right click context menu, the other removes it. take_ownership_context_menu.zip My Computer bamajon1974 Posts ...
