{"id":1845,"date":"2013-02-01T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-11-06T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T06:30:10","slug":"add-take-ownership-to-right-click-context-menu-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/add-take-ownership-to-right-click-context-menu-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Add &#8220;Take Ownership&#8221; to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what is the most annoying part of Windows 7 or Vista? Every time you try to access a system file\/folder you get &#8220;Permission Denied&#8221; error. Windows 8\/7\/Vista doesn&#8217;t allow any user even the Administrator to modify (rename, delete, move) those system files. In order to gain full permissions to system files and folders, you need to <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-take-ownership-grant-full-control-permissions-to-files-folder-in-windows-8-7-vista\/\">take ownership &amp; grant full control permissions to files &amp; folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking ownership generally requires you to dive in and out of GUI menus, or break out the command prompt. It&#8217;s far more complicated than it needs to be, and thankfully, there is a free utility, called Ownership Changer, that makes this process easier.<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Updated:<\/strong><\/font> <em>We just released the first version of <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/take-ownership-pro.html\">TakeOwnershipPro<\/a>, a freeware to take ownership and grant yourself full permission to access any files or folders in Windows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Add &#8220;Take Ownership&#8221; to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download and unzip the files contained in the <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TakeOwnership.zip\">TakeOwnership.zip<\/a> file. Double-click the InstallTakeOwnership.reg file to install <strong>Take Ownership<\/strong> option in context menu.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the new right-click menu will look like after installing <strong>Take Ownership<\/strong> option:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1848\" title=\"take-ownership\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/take-ownership.png\" width=\"227\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the <strong>Take Ownership<\/strong> option doesn&#8217;t work for you, or simply doesn&#8217;t suit your needs, double-click the RemoveTakeOwnership.reg file to remove it from context menu.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what is the most annoying part of Windows 7 or Vista? Every time you try to access a system file\/folder you get &#8220;Permission Denied&#8221; error. Windows 8\/7\/Vista doesn&#8217;t allow any user even the Administrator to modify (rename, delete, move) those system files. In order to gain full permissions to system files and folders, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,39,5],"tags":[802,800,801],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","tag-add-take-ownership-to-right-click-menu","tag-take-ownership","tag-take-ownership-of-file"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}