Taking ownership of system files and folders in Vista is a pain. You can use the command line or the GUI, but you will tire after a while because there are simply too many steps. Here’s a way that will add this option to the context menu, so all you need to do to take ownership is to right-click and select the option. This will make it so simple as you can change permissions of a file from the context menu. To do this :
Open Notepad and type in the following..
Windows Registry Editor Version
5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]
@=”Take Ownership”
“NoWorkingDirectory”=””
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]
@=”cmd.exe /c takeown /f \”%1\”
&& icacls \”%1\” /grant
administrators:F”
“IsolatedCommand”=”cmd.exe /c
takeown /f \”%1\” && icacls
\”%1\” /grant administrators:F”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
@=”Take Ownership”
“NoWorkingDirectory”=””
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]
@=”cmd.exe /c takeown /f \”%1\”
/r /d y && icacls \”%1\” /grant
administrators:F /t”
“IsolatedCommand”=”cmd.exe /c
takeown /f \”%1\” /r /d y &&
icacls \”%1\” /grant
administrators:F /t”
Save the file as takeown.reg.
Double-click on the file and click Yes when prompted. There’s no need to reboot. Thats it and You are done.
Vista x64 says it’s not a reg file (but I did everithing said above, called it takeownership.reg also )
i have that same problem here.
the funny thing is for vista there are a million such websites telling you the “easy” way to take ownership, saying that the manual way to do it is hard, but not one of them actually telling you the manual way to do it, and none of the “easy” ways actually work, not on vista 64 at least.