ownership

I was able to access my flash drive last Friday, 2/28/14, and any day prior to that without any problems however Monday, 3/3/14, I get the following error when attempting to access my drive, "You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to...

when i connect remotely to w2k8 server, i have to change the settings in the printer to "print directly to spooler" but this option is grayed out and i cannot change it, i try to take ownership in the security tab but each time i log off and log on the ownership disappear and i have to put it...

Alright, here's the story. My original hard drive died a few days ago in which I just replaced. Once everything was back up to what it was before, I found that my external hard drive had some issues to permissions. I couldn't access any files on it and so I went in and tried some things...

I am unable to change any permission for any folder . every option that supposed to be available for setting the permission is gray out!! , for some of my files I see the owner is "unable to display the current owner". The problem is the same for every single folder and file. I checked other...

Just got a new pc that has W8, came from XP. I have a popcorn hour NMT with an internal HDD that I have networked and was working fine with my old pc. The drive is mapped and is visible in windows explorer and I can even upload files to it with Filezilla. When I try to modify a file through w...

How do i take ownership of my secondary drives, i cant even get a proper right click menu which allows me to create notepads and stuff, i got windows 7 home

Hi, Drive D is not accessible. Access denied. I have tried taking ownership, full control give to everyone, etc Nothing worked. But Drive D can be accessible as normal in safe mode. Lenovo Thinkpad Edge Windows 7 Professional SP1 Link RemovedLink RemovedLink RemovedLink Removed

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Most stupid thing to do, but I did it... I changed ownership of all files on C:\ (and permissions also -removed SYSTEM, Users & authenticated users from all files-shame on me) and after that, I was unable to get even into win logon screen. Fortunately, I have 2 Win 7 x64 versions installed, so I...

I have just bought a new Laptop with Win7 64bit. Recently I encountered some errors, which included not being able to save some files, Windows Installer errors and file extracting probs. I found out that they all were related to my %Temp% folder's permissions being set to read-only. I...

i'm having problems deleting a folder. before it stated that i needed SYSTEM permission, so i changed the ownership to COMPUTERNAME/MYUSERNAME. And i'm still unable to delete the folder.

I installed 8 last Friday, been trying to get my music library to show up in the "Music" app for a week now. I've changed ownership and permissions to my current 8 username. It's in as the ONLY library folder for music All my music is in WMP Nothing will show up in the app, just says...

I just installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit on two machines, and then Firefox 16.0.1 on each. Trying to replace the password files in my new profile, I found that many of these folders and files (in User\me\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla) cannot be deleted, nor can their ownership be changed. They...

I tried SuperAdBlocker, but it didn't work with IE 9 nor Firefox 17 Nightly, both 64 bit. Having uninstalled, a single file named SABSVC stayed in the installation folder, I couldn't remove it for 'used in a program'. I found it among the 'Services' in the Task Manager but couldn't stop it for...

I am running Windows 8. I know this forum is for Windows 7, but the Windows 8 forum is under developed and doesn't really have any members yet. I am selling my laptop, so I'm installing Windows 7 since I have Windows 8 now. I was going to install it off a flash drive. Every time I go to try to...

Greetings! For the most part, I LOVE WIN7 64. However, I have had huge complications with my external hard drives that has made it essentially impossible to write to a 2 Terabyte external. I've googled and tried for hours various combinations of 'take ownership' and file permissions etc etc...

Hi Guys, hope you can help me with this problem. Due to a NTFS hickup, a folder (1,3TB) ended wrongly up inside the system volume information (win7) folder. Wanted to move it back to it's root, but to no avail... Tried take ownership, cacls, safe mode, tools etc. :( Need to to really move it...

Hi! I have an external USB HDD that I want to be able to move between computers. Problem is everytime I move and try to open a folder on the next computer I get the permission error and must take ownership of it with the new computer. I want to be able to switch the drive between the...

There is some little software around to take ownership of files and folders in Windows 7. When I was installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I took ownership of all I could find. Then a few things no more worked and I had to reinstall... Luckily, I had almost only the basic installation done. I and...

Ever since I've had my computer there has been an extra drive on it. it was called microsoft (Protected). It has absolutely nothing on it, and it has no use. I have been trying to delete it to no avail, so I renamed it to annoying drive.Link Removed Whenever I try to access it it gives me an...