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Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Lena0581 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:01:40 -0000

didn´t work for mscoree.dll. how do i remove the permissions? help please!

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Patrick — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:28:53 -0000

when i open command promnt it dosent let me go to any other fine other that the files in system32 i want to find a file in program files

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

GrannyGeek — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:08:10 -0000

I was able to add this permission and change my filename. But I don't know how to remove the permission again...

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

faf1967 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:14 -0000

First use icacls to back up the perms. Then perform the work. Use icacls to restore the perms when you're finished

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Name — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:00:06 -0000

@Furry321 icalcs should be spelled icacls.

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

LifeWulf — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:42:07 -0000

Windows says there is no such command "icalcs"

But the previous command (takeown /f) worked.

Help!

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:11:44 -0000

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?

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Chuck — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:10:12 -0000

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?

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

tamasfodor — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:04:47 -0000

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

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

rwolf — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:29 -0000

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?

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Leito — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:34:26 -0000

I just found how to take off permissions :

icacls filepath /deny yourusername:f (=take off the 'grant')

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Leito — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:25:10 -0000

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?

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

calv7n — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:23:34 -0000

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

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:43:28 -0000

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

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Uwe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:09:42 -0000

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

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Uwe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:05:48 -0000

hi,
that doesn´t work for the file mscoree.dll in folder windows32

regards
Uwe

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Trevv — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:18:56 -0000

It won't accept username
Invalid parameter "UserName:F"

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Tim — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:23:38 -0000

it won't accept my username

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

ray — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:18 -0000

it doenst work with \system32

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Hassan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:42:57 -0000

Thanks that works.

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Serizzim — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:59:50 -0000

Thank you a lot, solved my issue. And yes, it does work on whole folders.

Re: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:24:27 -0000

Will this work on entire folders and drives or only on single files?