How To Take Ownership Of Administrative Files and Folders On Windows 10/8/7
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2018
- How To Take Ownership Of Administrative Files and Folders On Windows 10/8/7.
If you’ve ever been denied access to a file or folder in Windows, chances are you need to take ownership of them with your user account. Here’s how.
In Windows, a user that has ownership of a file or folder has implicit rights to change permissions on that object. That user is also always allowed to access the file or folder-even when other permissions seemingly contradict that access. When you create a file or folder, the user account under which you’re logged in automatically gets ownership.
But you might occasionally run into a situation where you need to take ownership of a file or folder. Maybe you’ve got files or folders that were created by a user account that has since been deleted. Maybe you’ve got a hard drive from another PC that you’re working on. Or maybe you just need access to a particular system file-like “notepad.exe”- so you can apply a system modification. Whatever your reason, here’s the official way to take ownership of a file or folder. And once you’ve learned how to do it, why not make it even easier and add a “Take Ownership” command right to your context menu?
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems. Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung). 
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Unfortunately this isn't working for my uses. It keeps saying "permission denied" when I'm trying to click apply
I got as far as all those OKs. the page on which I have to check if ALL APPLY was not filled in with those items shown on YOUR page?? Plus it still says I am not administrator so I still can't delete temp files?? Any suggestions? Thanx
Any tutorial for how to take ownership of system owned files? Im trying to delete windows defender because it still uses half my ram despite having it turned off
Whenever i press 'change' or 'change permission' the tab that opens for you does not open for me and it simply turns gray, any ideas? Please help i am dealing with "anti malware service executable" service
Hi. I am having an issue with using a USB on my work computer. I do not have admin permission to open the USB on this laptop. When I right-click on the USB icon, it does not have the "Security" tab. How do I get around it?
can someone help me it just says permission denied when i try to change owner.
Your probably not an admin
@@unclejesseppe7323 6 months ago lmao. And yes ive figured that out.
@@kalle2802 lol
@@unclejesseppe7323 xd
@@unclejesseppe7323 how tf do i make myself ad min the things are greyed out
I ve somehow took the ownership but now i want to reverse it to the previous settings like when we won't be able to open the windowsapps folder so how i am gonna do that??
im on windows 10 and when i open the properties window im not getting a security settings option ? can anybody advise me as to how to enable this option ?
This, although you think would be dated, tutorial still works! I went to download a zip file, that being an amp simulator plugin, because it was free and open source, I decided to download it from another website, it wasn't even sketchy at all. When I downloaded the file and unzipped it, there were no dialog boxes for me to even had given what I downloaded permission to run as admin. Had there been any red flags I would never had installed it and continued in the process. It's sad to think there is someone out there that took something open source and riddle it with whatever it was to take power as admin. I scoured the internet to find the right tutorial to fix this, but none of them were, some of them wanted me to run scripts, but it was overtly complicated compared to this way to regain power as admin. Thanks a lot!
Windows 10 from 2015 is extremely similar to Windows 10 in 2021. Desktop Operating Systems don't change that fast.
Thatnks. Question: How can I do this in bulk? I reinstalled Windows and all my files are from the "old owner".
Hey, please help, I kind of changed ownership to something else and restarted my pc and now I don't have perm to change ownership, how do I fix it?
Im trying to put somthing in Program files but i still cant open it
mine after doing this acces denied, just planing to reuse old hdd as my external drive
Hi, should I give the hard drive name followed by the device name? Please help me out it is asking me to type a valid object name followed by slash.
My local disk C is locked by the administrator by mistake , How can I unlock & get access to the files in it ? The local disk is completely gone please help.
iight bro so how do you give them all full control cause its not enabled
Thanks alot, didn't even have to restart my computer :D
When I try to do this there is no security tab, what am I supposed to do about that?
Excellent video. I had to do this to recover files off a pc from 2005. My only problem now is i have to do it for every file, even when i check the box to include sub files. Is there a way around this
security tab not available, what should I do?
I'm getting a error when trying to remove personal info off a photo windows 10. when I click Remove properties and personal info . Warning Windows 10 was unable to remove properties from the selected file. Not all personal properties were cleared I'm pulling my hair out thanks.. Hope someone can help
What do I do if full control is greyed out? like for example in my system 32 folder?
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
im not even allowed to view it
Same
Hi, I am trying to take ownership of a folder in my external HDD but it's taking very very long and not getting completed even after 2 hours. Please advise the course of action in this scenario. Thanks
It's happening with me. What was the solution
SAME
Kind of garbled there but this helped me get STEP 1: Access to my own shit, then STEP 2: Able to turn on permissions on everything. For some reason Microsoft does NOT MAKE IT CLEAR YOU NEED TO GO INTO 5 ADVANCED MENUS TO GRANT YOURSELF ACCESS LOL.
Man this vid up for 4 years and still helping thx alot
Glad it helped!
When i click change it doesnot show anything
Hi, This is a big problem I have faced in my laptop. Sir, I have stored some personal photo's in drive D: which is already under windows bitlocker, but I dont remember I had been given some personal certificate to access these photos that time which I dont remember now. I tried every possible way to access these photos after Formatting C: drive. when I try to open these files. it gives a massage "it looks like you don't have permission to access this file" and when I try to take ownership of these files, the owner of these files symbol have a note of interrogation symbol on it. can you help me?
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
Same problem bro
i tried clicking chamge but all it does it gray out and doesnt let me do anything further, ive done this tutorial with other files and it works but for some reason this one file doesnt. not sure what to do
Did you find a solution after that?
I have remove system and authenticated users, is that ok?
whej I click CHANGE there is a error CLSID key...
why cannot change my display current owner
Worked well. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Love the intro
Thanks!
how to restore the ownership again back? pls
how to take file ownership on external hardisk?
Hi can you please tell me why do I have 53000 files in roaming Microsoft crypto RSA folder ?
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
when i click on change its just freezing
Thank you. It helped me a lot.
Happy to help!
Bro it won’t let me even change ownership
The problem is that, as was the same in this video, all the options (checkboxes) are grayed out. It would be helpful to have a video that shows how you can actually make a selection (un-gray the boxes) so you can actually MAKE a change.
How to remove grey boxes
Add option is greyed
Wont let me click change
"Thoust fools! Thou think that thy owneth me? Wrong! I owneth thee! Thou art my computer! I am like thy god!" me to my pc when it tells me it wont delete temp files
Thank you for Teaching
You are welcome
Help, i dont have security tab and it shows Administrator is the owner of the folder, can someone help me?
Any solution???? @akmens1116
Bro, I keep looking for vids to try and help me but I just can't seem to find literally any video that can, I am so damn tired
Hi mate, how do i set myself to access special permissions? its still greyed out im trying to recover a draft i deleted, i believe i know the folder but i still dont have access trying to access C:\Users\[Your Profile}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ as ive been lead to believe its in there.
any help would be much appreciated @MDTechVideos
then u click ok. *silence treatment*
It is not you, it is me.
Do you know how to do this in command form? I'm doing batch commands for stuff.
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
@@MDTechVideos CMD commands, the programing language of .bat files, stuff of that nature
hey i did everything and it's still full control is still greyed out. Anything i can do about this?
hey vanic! Same
same
Same any solution?
when I left click the permissions in the advanced security settings they come up grey and unclickable is there a solution?
Are you using admin account?
@@MDTechVideos how do you use an admin acount
It's weird that all my hard drives have SYSTEM as owner. I'm the only user and I should have admin priviliges.
Yes I am having multiple issues with certain folders not allowing me permission. I am the only fucking user yet I don't have administrator permission somehow. I mean are you fucking kidding me??? I swear I'm so enraged I'm ready to slam my fist through the screen. I've watched so many videos and I have looked this shit up and I have tried everything but no matter what I do it says error.
@@jdstinner3868 please help me if you have found something
Still works on Windows 11! Very helpful.
Glad I could help!
worked perfectly. thank you sooooo much. love you so much
You're welcome!
@@MDTechVideos it worked but i can't view my files completely. I can only view the front face. Inside it is saying check the permission and try again later.
thank you so much helped me out.
Glad to help!
My name is Victor. I am a college student and I currently have an issue with my laptop that I have been unable to solve. I enjoyed your video and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice.
My issue is with antimalware service executable. It is hogging the cpu running at 20%+ usage anytime the laptop is on. I tried excluding the file and that did not work. I followed your exact steps in your video in hopes of taking ownership and deleting the file (MsMpEng). The only issue I have in following your video is what happens after clicking on "change" in the advanced security settings window. After I click change, nothing happens. The change button turns grey and then I can no longer click on it. I'm not sure why this happens. If the select user or group box would pop up then maybe I could change the ownership of MsMpEng and then delete it. Does anybody have any advice?
Thank you
you need ownership and full control of the folder/s that the file you want to change is being stored in, atleast that would be my best guess.
OMG! Thank you so much bro!!!
Any time!
100% working one can go through it .... Good video
Glad to help!
It worked for me, I had a windows installation on another drive and I was not able to access it. However, I wasn't able to get permission to access some folders in the Users/(your user) folder (like .AppData).
i am in a similar situation - i have another installation on a different hard drive and i am simply trying to delete an .mp3. however it's owned by a user on the other installation. i could boot into it, but that hard drive is very old and so would be very inconvenient
I cant even open it just freezes
i bought fs19 on my friends acc lol how do i fix this
what do i do if i want to reset all the owner changes i did
Bro did u fix it?
@@ehsanulh9553 i did
THANKYOUUU!!!! This really helped me!!
Glad it helped!
I still cant change the owner… what to doo 😭😭
Always says “assess denied” no video helps I been looking for hours
thank you that was very helpful
Glad I could help
Brother by mistake i have denied all permission including read and removed all the user .now i am unable to open local disk c .help me
Bruh, rip
I got the same issue I locked the local disk C by the administrator & now it's Nowhere to be found .
This does not work for Program Files x86
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
@@MDTechVideos it doesn't want to apply the change for taking ownership
uh this tutorial is pretty hard is there another Way?
Thank u so much..... THAT WORKED
authenticated users it is!!!! After trying the others that didnt work
You're welcome!
SAVED ME YET AGAIN
everything is greyed out. i cant click on full control on anything
Same
@@stupidfunnyvideos4291 Have you fixed it?
I can’t press on the full control pls help
@@inside1501 how
@@inside1501 .
It's really helpful for me🙋
Glad to hear that
Y COMO SE QUITAR?
i have just succesfully destroyed a vm. thank you
Some of mine didn't have full control just trusted installer did?
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
@@MDTechVideos oh, I figured it out and everything is ok now! I was able to restore my cpu OC by doing this so thanks in advance!
does it work for system32?
yup
😑 I've hid things(zip folder) there coz the PC was wrecked but got the hardrive on another PC and it doesn't want to budge, doesn't copy, extract nor moved
How to ungrey a boxes
I need help my computer has 20 plus established
A hacker
Well... thankyou so much .. ❤️
You're welcome!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
still won't work :(
Thank you so much i almost gonna die...
You're welcome!
Thanks 😊🙏😊for the great video
Glad to help.
Thank you so much :)
You're welcome!
you deserve it thanks a lot
You're welcome!
Thanks man you've made my day 👍👍✌
You're welcome!
thank you
thank you so much
You're welcome!
This saves my ass bro! Thank you so much!
Glad I could help
Why choose to give ownership to "authenticated users" as opposed to giving it to your specific account?
Surely someone with ill intent could become an "authenticated user" and if that happened wouldn't they also be granted ownership / permissions?
Cuz thats the goal obviously
Thank you!!!
You're welcome!
Tale a long time doing one file at a time.
thanks
Glad to help.
Ah yes it works thanks man
Happy to help
The best youtuber
thank you so much i thought i ended my pc cus i had no full control anymore and just.....
thank you :)
Happy to help
Do you know about CREATOR OWNER?
Thanks
Welcome