ownership

Hello, As the title suggests, I'm having the common problem everybody is facing with file permissions and Windows 7. I have tried all solutions I could find on this forum, but nothing worked. Here is the situations: - I used to run WinXP Professional. I copied all my files to an EXTERNAL...

Hi, I bought an enclosure for my old broken desktop's hard drive, connected it to my laptop, but whenever I try to go into it it just says "Access Denied" I have tried changing the drive's letter, I've looked at permissions and everything is ticked, and I've gone into advanced and...

[SOLVED] Administrator Permissions not working on Administator Account Alright, so I did some looking through similar threads but couldn't find any with this exact issue. Hopefully this is not a repeat thread, I don't think it is. SOLUTION It turns out that some of the files in the folder were...

Better read the EULA before you give away or sell an old version of software that you no longer use. According to a recent court ruling, if it is so stated in the EULA that the producer of a piece of software retains ownership and you are only licensed to use it, you can only remove the product...

I recently bought my laptop with Windows 7. My son created a User Account with Admin right. He went back to college and deleted his account by control panel, user account delete method. There in my C:\User\ directory is his user account folder with a lock on it. I can't delete it, even though I...

everytime I have to reinstall w7 it makes "unknown contact" the owner of the folders/files on my other drive/partition, since I do a clean install onto C: If I take ownership it makes me the owner. How do I take back ownership as the administrator and not me. OK, I may have the idea, but how...

Hello, I am experiencing a major problem - I cannot remove read-only attribute from ANY folder on Windows 7. I have searched google and this whole forum about this problem and I've found that many people have a similar issue. There were offered such solutions as to use ''attrib -r -s...

hello i followed after this blog and it didn't help much i still dont have premissions to the entire computer ever since i installed win7 ultimate why da hell is that??? i added this nice tool and it helped but its only for files and folders. i want to do it for entire partition why da hell...

I am an experienced system administrator (mostly on Unix, but also on Win XP). I've recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The data disk, where all of the user project folders are stored is separate from the system disk, and untouched by the upgrade. I am the owner and...

I need some serious help guys. I'm not exactly dumb in the field of computers but this one has me stumped. Half of the folders on my computer are locked for absolutely no reason. My friend did something by accident (he doesn't know what) and now all my folders with itunes (music) and my...

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Hello, For days now, I've been looking to solve an issue I'm having regarding the permission settings. It's driving me bonkers ! For whatever reason I simply cannot move a specific dll file, I then get the following message : "you require permissions from Everyone to make changes to this...

Greetings Win7 users, I could use your help. Here's the story: I have Win7 Ultimate x32 (relatively) recently installed on a pc with two HDD's, a 250g and a 500g. I use the 250g as a system partition and the 500g as a media drive (music, videos, photos); I carried this one over from a...

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Ok, so I tried setting my password file (save my passwords in) to apparently stupidly high security. I have ownership, and set read and write permission to Deny through the security tab in the properties dialog for Admin through Guests. I assumed that, by having ownership, it would not Deny...

I know this seems like a question that has been asked many times, but none of the solutions I have found have worked. Recently, all of my folders on my hard drive have become read only. Even new folders I create are set to read only. However, all of the files remain unchanged. I realize that...

i'm currently customizing my windows 7 64 bit. i have already patched my uxtheme and have taken ownership of several system files in order to do what i need. then out of the blue i tried taking control of another file i needed to modify and when i click the ownership tab and click edit, the...

Hi, I just upgraded from x86 to x64 and all went rather well, but the files that were backuped from my desktop ended up unusable... I get a no permissions message everytime I try to use any files... I've tried to take ownership of the file, but to no avail... please help

What is file permisions and how do I do it? What is taking ownership of a file or folder and how do I do it? I have Windows 7 64 bit buikt by me.

Backstory: I have been using Win7 since 7000 beta and played with it and love it (I'd consider myself pretty PC-saavy). But I'm having a problem with homegroup sharing on two computers. I have a desktop running much like a server: having utorrent download (free and legal) torrents and...