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

By: Lena0581

Lena0581 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:01:00 +0000

didn´t work for mscoree.dll. how do i remove the permissions? help please!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:28:00 +0000

when i open command promnt it dosent let me go to any other fine other that the files in system32 i want to find a file in program files

By: GrannyGeek

GrannyGeek — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:08:00 +0000

I was able to add this permission and change my filename. But I don’t know how to remove the permission again…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:06:00 +0000

First use icacls to back up the perms. Then perform the work. Use icacls to restore the perms when you’re finished

By: Name

Name — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:00:00 +0000

@Furry321 icalcs should be spelled icacls.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:42:00 +0000

Windows says there is no such command “icalcs”

But the previous command (takeown /f) worked.

Help!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:11:00 +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 17:10:00 +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: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:04:00 +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: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:09:00 +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?