Recent content by rodger

Thanks, Mike. I already have UAC turned off and am using the normally hidden administrator account. the "grant admin full control" registry key you linked to at mydigitiallife.com just adds another command to the shell that actually just runs the takeown function from the command prompt...

So it's a new day and I'm still having this problem. Does anybody out there know how to give a user account full control over system folders if the administrator account doesn't have full control? That is the core of my issue. I am hoping to fix this without doing a repair install of windows...

Thanks, Trouble. I tried that just now and have the same results as before. I can't take ownership or change permissions. All those reg keys do is add the shortcut to "Take Ownership" the windows shell right click folder options. A DOS window flashes for a split sec but obviously it fails...

Hi Trouble, Here is the screenshot of that window for me. All of the permissions are special and when I attempt to change any of them I get the same 2 errors I posted earlier. It allows me to check the box for full control but gives me those errors when I exit and doesn't save the changes. I...

I forgot to mention that I tried rebooting the computer in safe mode with no services under the admin account and had the same results.

I'm running windows 7 ultimate and am trying to install some software off of a secure server at a remote location to my hard drive. The install fails every time because the my user account (an administrator) does not have full write permissions to the program files directory. I have tried...