Windows 10: How do I gain ownership or full control of my laptop?

I recently put in a new SSD into my laptop and installed Windows 10 then I logged into my Microsoft account during the setup phase. Once it was done I saw Windows named my user file oregi so I changed it using the local administrator account and regedit.My problem started when I tried to install the Bluetooth driver when gave me an error and aske me to check if have permissions. I found a solution to give me ownership but my laptop recognises the old username and not the new one, and it won't give me access to change ownership of full control.So I want to know how do I fix this so I change own

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ownership control

gain ownership from trusted installer for all files, sub files, folders, etc..

 

unable to gain ownership of folder

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the steps provided below and check if it helps.

• Right click on the folder and select
  Properties.
• Click on Advanced button.
• Click on Edit button. Click ok to confirm UAC elevation request.
• Select user/group from permission windows or click
  Add to add other user or group.
• Now under Permission section check the rights which you want to grant i.e. check “Full Control” under the “Allow” column to assign full access rights control permissions. (Generally we add ‘Everyone’ to give permission to all
  the users on the computer).
• Edit the permission to Full Control for ‘Everyone’.
• Click OK for changes to take effect and click ok again to exit from Properties window.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

will not let me gain ownership or full control over data d drive

Hi Amy,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

Method 1:

Step 1: Make sure that you are logged in as an administrator.

Step 2: Try to take ownership of the files and check if it helps.

Taking ownership of a folder from explorer

1) Locate the file or folder on which you want to take ownership in windows explorer.

2) Right click on file or folder and select “Properties” from
Context Menu.

3) Click on "Security" tab.

4) Click on “Advanced” button.

5) Now click on "Owner" tab in
Advanced Security Settings for User windows.

6) Click on Edit Button and select user from given Change Owner to list if user or group is not in given list.

7) Click on other users or groups. Enter name of
user/group and click ok.

8) Now select User/group and click
apply and ok. Check “Replace owner on subcontainers and
objects” if you have files and folder within selected folder.

9) Click ok when Windows Security Prompt is displayed.

10) Now Owner name must have changed.

11) Now click Ok to exist from
Properties windows.

Once you have taken the ownership of file or folder next part comes is granting permissions to that file/folder or object.

If the above method doesn’t work, you could try taking ownership from the command line.

Or Taking ownership of a file or folder from command line

Open an elevated Command Prompt window.

To do so:

1) Right-click on Command Prompt, and then click
Run as Administrator.

2) Type the following command and press ENTER:

takeown /f <foldername> /r /d y

4) To assign the Administrators group Full Control Permissions for the folder, use this syntax:

icacls <foldername> /grant administrators:F /T

The /T parameter is added so that the operation is carried out through all the sub-directories and files within that folder.

5). To know more information about the above commands, run these commands from a Command Prompt window.

takeown /?

icacls /?

Once you take ownership, you can grant permissions on those files or folders.

Hope this helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.

Thanks.