Giving full access windows 7

I tried this exactly. Is there a simple way to tell expletive here microsoft to just give me total control and bug the expletive here off? Not sorry. They should be. Bad instructions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Time limit is exhausted. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Considering Venturing into Hemp Production?

Here is What You Need to…. How Gamers Can Aim for Sustainability. How to Empower your business with Artificial Intelligence. Enhancing Your Game Streaming. Windows will not let me change the access or ownership at all, even in safe mode. Anyway, MS really did do a wonderful job with this OS. I am in love with Windows 7 and have recently become a Microsoft fan since moving to Redmond and seeing how much they care about their community.

Thanks in advance for your help, Melaney. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Marilyn O. In reply to mmmelaney's post on November 5, Hello mmmelaney, Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Answers Forum.

You can disable User Account Control and your permissions should be back as normal. Security has been a buzz word in modern computing and especially in Windows operating system, which its relatively open environment made Windows prone to accidental deletion, corruption, virus infection and malicious attacks of system files. So if you want to perform a hack on the system files, or to rename, edit, and delete the system files, you must first take ownership and get full control access permissions for your user account or group.

In addition, if you plug in a hard disk drive installed on another system, the permissions may get messed up too even if you are having the same user account name in the same group, as the hashed identifier may be different on different computer. In such cases, the ownership and the permissions of the drive and its files and folders have to be changed too. Note: Press Continue or enter user name and password of administrator account if User Account Control prompts for permission to continue.

Select to highlight the user account or group for example, Administrators in the Change owner to box that you want to assign as the owner for the object. Click OK to make the change. Click OK to exit from all Properties dialog boxes. You can select any other permissions that you want to grant by selecting other check boxes as desire. The file or folder now belongs to you with full control permissions.