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How To: Take Ownership Of A Folder/File In Windows 7

Posted February 18, 2009 – 6:11 am in: Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweaks
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Taking ownership of a file is very essential when you want to replace or edit system folders or files. Though there are many ways to take ownership of files, running a simple registry file is the easiest one.

In this guide I will be focusing on the easiest method using which you can take ownership of files in Windows 7 easily.

Take Ownership in 7

In this method, we will merge a registry file with Windows Registry to get an option named “Take Ownership” in the context menu (Right-click menu). This is the simplest and quick method.

1. Download the Ownership.zip file from here.

2. Extract the RAR file to the Desktop or any folder to get a file named “Ownership.reg”. Note that if you want to see the extension “.reg” you need to enable it in “Folder Options” but it’s not necessary.

3. Right-click on Ownership.reg file and select Merge option.

Merge

4. Click “Yes” for the User Account Prompt (UAC) and then again  click “Yes” for the Registry Editor pop up and then click “OK” when you get the successful message.

Registry Editor Confirmation

Registry Editor Confirmation 2

5. Now, you will see a new option named Take Ownership when you right-click on a file or folder.

6. Right-click on folder/file for which you want to take ownership and select Take Ownership option to take ownership of the file or folder.

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7 Comments

  1. Matt
    Posted February 20, 2009 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

    I have the following error message using Windows 7 to open an mp3 in windows media player:

    Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item

    Will downloading this feature help?

  2. Jahglory
    Posted March 15, 2009 at 12:00 am | Permalink

    Link to the file is dead :(

  3. tweakwindows
    Posted March 15, 2009 at 5:02 am | Permalink

    @Jahglory
    Thanks for pointing the dead link. I have fixed it.

  4. pakrat
    Posted March 23, 2009 at 5:03 pm | Permalink

    Link to file is dead again..

  5. Darkness
    Posted April 19, 2009 at 12:09 am | Permalink

    Can’t you place content of that file as plain text?
    And don’t use rar, please, it is proprietary format, use zip, tar.gz, bz2, lzma, 7zip instead.

  6. tweakwindows
    Posted April 23, 2009 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    Darkness,
    Sure, will do it.

  7. Rupal
    Posted February 17, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Permalink

    Wow..this was awesome! You rock man..
    I was sick of doing it all manually!

    Thanks a lot!

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