Comments on: Vista: How To Take Ownership of a System File

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:11:44 +0000

what happens if you can't locate you file path? You can trace it through Start then Computer then C: Drive then Program Files then Common Files then Microsoft Shared then etc…
But when my screen says: takeown /f c:programfilescommonfilesmicrosoftshared……….
it comes up with “path not found” What am I doing wrong?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:12 +0000

Everyone who offers this guidance seems to ignore a really fundamental question. Is “takeown” permanent? What about restoring file ownership to its original state when you're done modifying, especially for system files? How do you do that?

By: tamasfodor

tamasfodor — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:04:47 +0000

i tried to do it but all it said after i`ve typed the file name in to the window it said cant associate the file go to set association control panel and select , etc

By: rwolf

rwolf — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:09:29 +0000

I tried the above instructions, but the response I got when trying to get it to "grant" was the following:

user name: No mapping between accounts names and security ID's was done.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files.

What does that mean and how can I correct this?

By: Leito

Leito — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:34:26 +0000

I just found how to take off permissions :

icacls filepath /deny yourusername:f (=take off the 'grant')

By: Leito

Leito — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:25:10 +0000

Thanks for that tip, it works well on my Vista and I'm glad for that (:
But can you give us the commande to remove permissions?

By: calv7n

calv7n — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:34 +0000

Hi, thanks very much for the tip. I've been able to rename my mscoree.dll folder in system 32 (but it didn't solve my problem unfortunately!). I'd like to remove the premissions now, but I don't how to do it. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:43:28 +0000

Thank you so much.

I was getting to the point of dispair with not being granted access to the root of my F: drive.

Worked perfectly

By: Uwe

Uwe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:09:42 +0000

Hi,
do you have an idea to install open office under Vista?
Someone told me that I have to rename the file mscoree.dll in folder windows32.
But that doesn´t work with the idea above.

regards
Uwe

By: Uwe

Uwe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:05:48 +0000

hi,
that doesn´t work for the file mscoree.dll in folder windows32

regards
Uwe