Take Ownership & Gain Full File Access
TakeOwnershipPro is a nice freeware that helps you take ownership and grant full permissions of any folders or files in Windows. Simply drag and drop your folder / file to the program and you can grant yourself full control permissions quickly. This program also adds the "TakeOwnershipPro" option to the right-click menu in Windows Explorer, which that makes this process easier!
- Absolutely free.
- Take ownership of your files from right-click context menu.
- Support all Windows system (32-bit & 64-bit).
- Simple and intuitive graphic interface.
- Drag your desired folders or files to the program and you can grant yourself access rights quickly.
- Easily take ownership through right-clicking the folders or files that you're denied access.
- Fix the "Cannot Delete" or "Access Denied" problems even though you was logged in as the Administrator. .
- Take ownership of multiple folders or files at one time.
- TakeOwnershipPro is 100% free for both personal and commercial use.
- Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP.
- Full install/uninstall support.
Unzip with Universal Extractor and rename files ending with ",1" from filenames (in "{app}" directory).
Delete the others.
You can also pass file or directory path to exe in commandline to work.
Portability:
Requires admin rights.
No signs of system modifications.
Log file is created in the application folder.
Website:
http://www.top-password.com/take-ownership-pro.html
More info:
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... ed-errors/
This helped me regaining ownership of my TEMP folder on Windows 7 that bugged me a lot.
Probably Acrobat modified directory ownership but I'm not sure.