Add Take Ownership Option To Files and Folders Context Menu in Vista
Windows Vista assigns a lot of system files ownership to TrustedInstaller and grants even administrators limited rights and permissions on important files and folders. Taking ownership of files and/or folders in Vista is cumbersome process. There is take ownership and grant access command line script to speed up the process, however, users still need to open elevated command prompt and manually type in the command together with the path to the file or folder to own.
To make take ownership and grant full access rights to files and folders easiest, users can add a new option on the contextual right click menu of files and folders, so that whenever users want to take ownership of files of folders, the process can be done by just right click on the file or selection of files, and then one click on Take Ownership menu item.
Update: The take ownership on right click menu hack has been updated with new registry keys.
To add and put this addition Take Ownership command into the right click menu of files and directories, simply download the TakeOwnership.zip from the forum, and then double click on the TakeOwnership.reg inside the package to merge the values to the registry. If User Account Control dialog pops up, click on “Continue” button.
After installing registry keys, whenever you right click on files or folders, a Take Ownership context menu item will be shown. The Take Ownership will assign ownership of the selected files or folders to the administrators group (and hence every users belong to the administrators group), and also grant full access permissions to the group.
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June 9th, 2009 04:15
Thank I Like it.
January 16th, 2009 08:21
Thanks for very useful information.
December 9th, 2008 11:07
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September 10th, 2008 23:44
Thanks for the take ownership zip file that helped me too. I have several computers on a small office network in my home. With Vista I could not even save a simple Word Doc to a folder on my wordbook hard drive since that folder was created on another computer. After I downloaded and installed the take ownership file that worked BUT I am still not able to change folder properties. I want to make all my folders accessible to all my computers. This is a MAJOR pain in the butt.
February 13th, 2008 13:16
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February 10th, 2008 00:04
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November 3rd, 2007 16:30
Thanks very much. It works perfectly.