Windows 10: Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key in Windows 10

The same story on other folders (e.g Program Files , Program Files x86 too, etc) System twice, Administrators twice as well, ....
Then, it looks like this is the default.

I appreciate it,

 

It looks like you are back to default then. Great news. *Party

 

Another good tutorial Brink thank you

 

I now have a folder that I copied to another folder and I can't delete the original folder because I don't have permission.
This has happened once a few months ago and I can't remember what I did to resolve it.

I have tried all your methods, but I am stuck with the message "You do not have permission to view or edit this object's permission settings."

I think the permission settings got scrambled in doing the copy as other operations were taking place. Any way to fix this with your techniques of do I need to do an off-line cleanup?

 

Hello bottomcritter, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you like, you could try using the Take Ownership context menu below on the folder, and see if you are able to delete it afterwards.

*Arrow Add Take Ownership to Context Menu in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

 

That was a quick response! And I like your suggestion of adding the context menus, I could have used them in the past for other problems I had, so I downloaded them.

Anyway, I got the problem resolved by using LockHunter, a little utility that will delete the folder/file, even though it was not locked. It requires a reboot, but that was a minor issue since I had already spent all afternoon trying to fix the permissions.

Thanks much!