ownership

A decade ago our devices felt like extensions of ourselves; today they feel like rented apartments with a landlord who keeps changing the locks and charging for the view. Background / Overview The narrative that once tied enthusiasts to specific hardware—iPhone vs Windows Phone, iPad vs...

LG smart‑TV owners are reporting that a recent webOS firmware update pushed Microsoft’s Copilot onto their home screens as a persistent tile — and in many cases the Copilot tile cannot be uninstalled through the TV’s normal app-management UI, only hidden or disabled, leaving owners with limited...

LG owners woke up to a routine webOS update this month and found Microsoft’s Copilot pinned to their home screens — an assistant they didn’t ask for and, in many reported cases, cannot delete. Background / Overview LG and Microsoft publicly signalled plans to bring Copilot to living-room screens...

I have inadvertently deleted my WIN11 User account name ( this was the Administrator account) from the Local User accounts and need to retrieve my datafiles from the DELL PC hardrive and then find a way to access them or copy them onto my external storage drive in unencrypted format.I believe...

Rust’s orange crab may be cute, but the language it represents is reshaping engineering decisions at the deepest levels of modern software: from browsers and kernels to cloud services and consumer devices. At RustConf 2025 the community celebrated a decade since Rust’s 1.0 release while also...

When Windows refuses to remove a file, the frustration is immediate — but the reasons are usually diagnosable and fixable. This in-depth guide walks through every practical method to force delete a file that won't delete on Windows 10 and Windows 11, explains why files become stubborn in the...

What is the best way to read a files owner and permissions, create a new file then apply those permissions without using the subprocess method or command line icacls etc.

Hello, I work for a large company and have recently been assigned to administer the windows servers. I have noticed a few things that I would like to do differently. We administrators log in to the system with a normal account and have to use a second account for all administrative...

As title says. The folder is placed on my secondary hard drive and it comes from an old PC of mine. The problem is that the folder was owned by my other PC's local account. I fixed that by adding myself as owner and I still can't remove the folder. I've even downloaded a regedit file that adds...

Preparing to give away my old Win 10 laptop, I reset Windows which deleted all my files. Finally, I need to delete my administrator account so no trace of my ownership remains. How?

I have run into an interesting situation. I have a directory that I cannot do anything with always receiving an "access denied" response. Going into the security tab of properties gives me the message "You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object". Then "click advanced...

I copied a folder tree from another computer in LAN onto my local computer. After some work I want to delete this folder tree on my local computer. When I right-click in File Explorer on the top node and select "delete" then a popup tells me: "You need to provide administrator permissions"...

Hi, Can anyone please help me on this :- I had mistakenly added a encryption to my one of the folder in D drive in Windows 7 and then had my Windows formatted and installed fresh again. The user from whom the encryption was initiated, is no deleted (as windows is formatted). Now when I access...

Assume I have a big directory tree. 1.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of user unequal to the current owner? 2.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of users which are unequal to "Administrators" and "peter'? 3.) How can I find out all...

To keep the story short (and avoid embarrassment to myself)... I have a file (.exe) to which everyone supposedly has full permissions, except that with explorer I cannot delete it, copy it, or move it. I can take ownership of it, but the same situation still exists. I **know** (because there...

Assume I have a huge directory tree with lots of files and folders. Some of them belong to (simplified) user "karl" (or unknown user "S-1-5-21-107808153") others not. When I execute now a command like takeown /f * /a /r /d y then ALL files+folders get the "Administrators" account as owner. I...

When I inspect my file system some of my "normal" (=non system) folders then I can see owners like "S-1-5-21-15185678....." or "S-1-5-21-107808153 Why do only approx 30% of all folders have "S-1-5-21-151..." as owner and all others "Administrator"? I dislike these "S-1-5-21-......" owners and...

Hello, My problem is that I cannot open or even copy some files in the hard drive of my former laptop because of permission and owner issues. To give you more context, I had a computer operating windows 7. The hard drive had a partition specific for saving data. My Pictures was set in this...

Situation: Secondary HDD contains previous installation's Windows folder which my current Win10 account cannot delete even as admin. Solution: I'm assuming that I'd need to first take ownership then change the permissions to give full control. However this is an old hard drive, and since my...

I was checking things out on my computer and discovered the "Folder and search options" under the "Organize" drop-down menu in windows explorer. It was then when I finally found how to view all the invisible files like the Cookies dir, or desktop.ini. I wanted to open the Cookies dir and look at...