ownership

I have a 2 TB storage drive that I need to remove all locks on all the folders and files. I have been dealing with this nightmare that I have lost and have had to redo weeks worth of work. I have read and tried so many tutorials, take ownership etc. Nothing penetrates the second layer or folders...

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...

I have been researching this problem for days, and Windows 7 seems to be a common factor, hence this post. I have a Maxtor Central Axis network drive that I have used for a number of years for backups. I reorganised it a while back and recently decided to do some housekeeping and empty the old...

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...

I have made some changes to Trusted Installer last night on my windows 7 laptop and I'm nervous that I may have messed it up. I followed this article instructions. Windows 7 – How to Delete Files Protected by TrustedInstaller I did this because I just switched to Windows 7 and my Itunes kept...

Hello all -- The permissions on my Windows 7 system (Windows 7 Ultimate x64) seem to have gotten screwed up over a period of months, such that applications now struggle to install or upgrade correctly. For example, Acrobat and iTunes auto-updates no longer work because the downloaded updates...

SOMEBODY HELP ME Link Removed I tried to take an ownership of a folder and as i see in the photo I couldn't althought i am one of the administrators group which is the surrent owner of the folder :( if somebody has any idea about that please i need help :$ Thanks in advance

I had downloaded a file and when I was done with it I wanted to delete the folder, subdirectories, and files. I kept getting "Access Denied." Went into properties and under Security, the owner was not named and I could not change it by editing it. Everytime I tried to change the attrib read only...

Hi! I have windows 7 ultimate installed, with multiple admin accounts. What I want is a private folder, that would be not be accessible to other admins. The problem is that other admins can take ownership of my folder and change permissions. What can I do? (besides using specialized third...