Comments on: How to Take Ownership & Grant Permissions to Access Files & Folder in Windows 7

By: Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:04:00 +0000

Thank You . This works .

By: Pilgrum90

Pilgrum90 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:33:00 +0000

for sharing purposes here you go! I knew all that already so this is what to do:

just copy and past it. now should have all the rights to share and is owned by the computer. Mostly we have this problem cause we got a new windows on an old system

OK if your doing this I know point and click is annoying if you want to
do multiple items like this and if you have it organized folders and sub
folders ect. like series from tv like friend then season and that is
all under folder tv… it could get frustrating.. So i was trying to
share with my ps3 so easier than giving the parent and the children
access is not always effective

1. make sure you have enough hard drive space if not then you might have to do this in steps.

2. Copy articles and just copy. (everything is reset to new folder. It’s
windows being greedy. claiming anything as its especially
after you put it a shared folder then it gets all messed up.)

3. Delete original files and you there you go.(if you took the time to organize you stuff during this process it should

now be easier to find what you want by writer or performer or what ever tags you have added to you media. you can

search by what ever criteria suits your fancy)

By: dukk91

dukk91 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:50:00 +0000

I don’t have permission to take ownership! -.-

By: Punyaniaman

Punyaniaman — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:09:00 +0000

very nice method what a man you are thanks very very very much…………..

By: Raymond Wigton

Raymond Wigton — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:54:00 +0000

So I’m taking ownership, see!! But I don’t get to step # 9 above. Instead I get a screen called ‘windows security’ with a message that reads “Changing ownership of” and immediately on top of it a new window opens up - and it is labeled ‘Error Applying Security’. The comment inside the box says “An error occurred while applying security information to:” and gives the file location C:directory namefile name.jpeg This is followed by the words

“”"”"”"The media is write protected”"”"”"”"”

Of course it is write protected!, That is why I came to this page in the first place. I’m trying to delete some duplicate files – my personal photos that took with my camera and that I backed up twice, they are in two different directories – the fact that they are write protected is what led me to this forum so that I could “TAKE OWNERSHIP away from Bill Gates and give MY computer to me! Is that really asking too damn much??? I have no idea why my files would be write protected? Certainly not by my choosing. In the end, I can’t even free up space on my own hard drive.
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So It has two options, continue or cancel
I choose continue and get the same window listing the next file name.jpeg in the directory and this continues until the whole directory list is expired. I’ve wasted my whole evening on this crap and I haven’t gotten anywhere. Microsoft, I’d like to knock the crap out of every worthless programmer in your company. I’m so tired of this - I’m buying a MAC next time. I’m the only one using my computer. Why do I need all these permissions and user account controls. Write a different program for office networks.

By: Darezsikness

Darezsikness — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:53:00 +0000

thx fixed my wow now its saves my setting thx agian:)

By: Flashgirl

Flashgirl — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:48:00 +0000

Ok, I just read the post by Johnny5 about him being experienced in these matters and having problems after a CLEAN install, I assume with the files he backed up…the rest of what he said was kind of gobbledegook for me, but I swear…I have the answer for all of you unlucky enough not to own the solution. But here it is…..Get a Mac.
I swear….get a Mac, all will be happy again.

By: Flashgirl

Flashgirl — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:39:00 +0000

Oh, and just another little awesome tidbit you’ll probably like to know – watch your backups – if you made a backup with the permissions set one way, and then change them on the computer – you will not (may not) be able to access them. That’s right. You’ll lose it all. They were encrypted in one way, so unless permissions are set right back to the old way you had them (who remembers or can keep track!?) – you’re hosed.
I hate Windows right now – I just want to reset all to default. All my files won’t allow me to post them to my ftp site now because somehow I don’t “have permission” – FACK OFF!

By: Flashgirl

Flashgirl — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:33:00 +0000

I have a Mac and a Win 7 laptop. I am now despising PCs with a passion – I have NEVER encountered so many fucking problems as with this Win machine….on the Mac, you simply run “fix permissions” every once in a while. This is brutal….

By: Zetsumei515

Zetsumei515 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:51:00 +0000

I don’t have an edit button in properties! D: help me! I hate windows and if I had more money I would have switched to apple already…

By: sdcaguy_2009

sdcaguy_2009 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:58:00 +0000

There is a God…. why does Microsoft have to make it so Fxxxing complicated… Leave the file system alone and just glorify the user interface…

Thanks for posting this “how-to”…!

By: Dick van der Velde

Dick van der Velde — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Does anyone know if this could be fixed/modified to do whole folders or drives at once? Would like to do something like that from the root of my removable HD. Because I dread having to go manually through over 10,000 files. Right now it only seems to work for the object you selected, would love to see another one that does the same but includes files and subdirectories.