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...
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 taking ownership of the directory, but I don't have permission to change it from TrustedInstaller.
I turned on the built in administrator account and logged in through that, but there is no difference in permission level. When I attempt to change the permission level I get the following error dialog box:
An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\Program Files (x86)
Access is denied
Then the following:
Unable to save permission changes on Program Files (x86)
Access is denied.
I've been fighting with this for three days now and I consider myself pretty adept at typical windows bs. Yes, my UAC is set all the way down. That was the first thing I turned off. I also tried shutting down virus protection and firewalls to no avail. Any help here would be awesome since none of the posts I've been able to find say what to do when the admin can't take control from TrustedInstaller.
Many thanks to whoever can help me out on this!!!
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 taking ownership of the directory, but I don't have permission to change it from TrustedInstaller.
I turned on the built in administrator account and logged in through that, but there is no difference in permission level. When I attempt to change the permission level I get the following error dialog box:
An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\Program Files (x86)
Access is denied
Then the following:
Unable to save permission changes on Program Files (x86)
Access is denied.
I've been fighting with this for three days now and I consider myself pretty adept at typical windows bs. Yes, my UAC is set all the way down. That was the first thing I turned off. I also tried shutting down virus protection and firewalls to no avail. Any help here would be awesome since none of the posts I've been able to find say what to do when the admin can't take control from TrustedInstaller.
Many thanks to whoever can help me out on this!!!
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 taking ownership of the directory, but I don't have permission to change it from TrustedInstaller.
I turned on the built in administrator account and logged in through that, but there is no difference in permission level. When I attempt to change the permission level I get the following error dialog box:
An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\Program Files (x86)
Access is denied
Then the following:
Unable to save permission changes on Program Files (x86)
Access is denied.
I've been fighting with this for three days now and I consider myself pretty adept at typical windows bs. Yes, my UAC is set all the way down. That was the first thing I turned off. I also tried shutting down virus protection and firewalls to no avail. Any help here would be awesome since none of the posts I've been able to find say what to do when the admin can't take control from TrustedInstaller.
Many thanks to whoever can help me out on this!!!
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 taking ownership of the directory, but I don't have permission to change it from TrustedInstaller.
I turned on the built in administrator account and logged in through that, but there is no difference in permission level. When I attempt to change the permission level I get the following error dialog box:
An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\Program Files (x86)
Access is denied
Then the following:
Unable to save permission changes on Program Files (x86)
Access is denied.
I've been fighting with this for three days now and I consider myself pretty adept at typical windows bs. Yes, my UAC is set all the way down. That was the first thing I turned off. I also tried shutting down virus protection and firewalls to no avail. Any help here would be awesome since none of the posts I've been able to find say what to do when the admin can't take control from TrustedInstaller.
Many thanks to whoever can help me out on this!!!
Worked exactly as stated!!! Outstanding!!I had the same problem with windows 8. This worked for me... Fist In C:\Program Files (x86) Right Click\Properties and turn off read only (I don't know if this makes a difference but I'm retracing my steps as I just completed this task.) Next navigate to the folder in regedit you wish to apply the change to in my case it was...
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\ShellFolder"
Right Click/Permissions/Advance
At the very top of the page it should say owner with a link to change the owner click it then click advance then click Find Now...Make sure you select your administrative user that you are using in my case "littlemittenz" click Ok until your at the Permissions window again, and if you notice you can change the permissions and click ok with no error message.
Hope this helped