Taking ownership

[effpeetee]

I have just taken ownership of my new computer. Is there anyway that I can take ownership of my files? Everything that I try/need to do stymies me and will not let me do it.:confused::confused::eek:

Help please.:D

Vista Home Premium.

Small wonder that my avatar is cross eyed.

Frank

[Deacon Frost]

I dont understand? You want ownership over vista files?

Do you have the administration permissions?

And on vista, there's something in each file that allows you to fully edit which usergroup has permissions. If you're an admin, go through each file, edit the properties, find the "Permissions" part on properties, open it, and give every user group you want to have which permissions those permissions.

Vista can be nice for being so ****ty! XD

[effpeetee]

find the "Permissions" part on properties, open it, and give every user group you want to have which permissions those permissions.

If only it was that simple.

I am the owner of the PC and the only (administrator) User.

It is a brand new machine. Only had it less than a week.

When I do what you suggest, it refuses to let me alter the permissions and tells me to see the administrator.

Personally, I HATE Vista. It is so STUPID. But I obviously have to get used to it. I am trying to move the files from my old disk drives into the new machine, Dead easy, No problem. It refuses to let me configure them. The config file cannot be changed from what it was on the old PC. "You do not have permission.............."

YUK!

Frank

[rafiki]

thats windows for you. :D

[outseeker]

This link seems to have the solution for you mate. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Apparently Vista made it a pain in the bum to do. Even XP was easy.. :)

[Deacon Frost]

Vista was the fail of windows, it was the only one since 98 to re-use the BSoD quite often.

A lot of the time you have to set yourself in admin rights. I'm pretty sure to do this you have to do things like "Show hidden files" and "See processes from all users" and such. That way it starts recognizing you as admin (That's what I had to do when I had to edit my registry keys).


I'm near saying **** vista and installing xp Essential. I'm so tired of this piece of crap, it has its benefits, but srsly, when I browse on it for like 3 hours straight, eventually my computer messes up, and the ie process locks, yet will respond. So I've gotta go into task manager and end iexplorer and ieuser.

Then you get the errors where vista won't let the computer start any new processes, and every time you try and open something it won't let it open, and automatically closes it. You have to lag the ctrl + alt + esc feature, then open task manager, and end everything you had running through processes, restart explorer.exe..

and it's just a ****ing pain.

[effpeetee]

Thank you outseeker. Brilliant site. Worked like a charm on my Vista Home Premium.

Frank

[outseeker]

Too easy brutha! Don't forget to click that lil picture of scales ;) http://www.codingforums.com/images/buttons/reputation.gif