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Tech-Recipes: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File | Microsoft Vista | Tech-Recipes

  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    Will this work on entire folders and drives or only on single files?
  • Serizzim · 1 year ago
    Thank you a lot, solved my issue. And yes, it does work on whole folders.
  • Hassan · 1 year ago
    Thanks that works.
  • ray · 11 months ago
    it doenst work with \system32
  • Uwe · 11 months ago
    Hi,
    do you have an idea to install open office under Vista?
    Someone told me that I have to rename the file mscoree.dll in folder \windows32.
    But that doesn´t work with the idea above.

    regards
    Uwe
  • Tim · 11 months ago
    it won't accept my username
  • Trevv · 11 months ago
    It won't accept username
    Invalid parameter "UserName:F"
  • Uwe · 11 months ago
    hi,
    that doesn´t work for the file mscoree.dll in folder windows32

    regards
    Uwe
  • Mike · 11 months ago
    Thank you so much.

    I was getting to the point of dispair with not being granted access to the root of my F:\ drive.

    Worked perfectly
  • calv7n · 11 months ago
    Hi, thanks very much for the tip. I've been able to rename my mscoree.dll folder in system 32 (but it didn't solve my problem unfortunately!). I'd like to remove the premissions now, but I don't how to do it. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance
  • Leito · 10 months ago
    Thanks for that tip, it works well on my Vista and I'm glad for that (:
    But can you give us the commande to remove permissions?
  • Leito · 10 months ago
    I just found how to take off permissions :

    icacls filepath /deny yourusername:f (=take off the 'grant')
  • rwolf · 4 months ago
    I tried the above instructions, but the response I got when trying to get it to "grant" was the following:

    user name: No mapping between accounts names and security ID's was done.
    Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files.

    What does that mean and how can I correct this?
  • tamasfodor · 4 months ago
    i tried to do it but all it said after i`ve typed the file name in to the window it said cant associate the file go to set association control panel and select , etc
  • Chuck · 2 months ago
    Everyone who offers this guidance seems to ignore a really fundamental question. Is "takeown" permanent? What about restoring file ownership to its original state when you're done modifying, especially for system files? How do you do that?
  • Stephanie · 2 months ago
    what happens if you can't locate you file path? You can trace it through Start then Computer then C: Drive then Program Files then Common Files then Microsoft Shared then etc...
    But when my screen says: takeown /f c:\programfiles\commonfiles\microsoftshared\..........
    it comes up with "path not found" What am I doing wrong?