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Take Ownership of Files and Folders in Windows 7 – An Easy Way

Submitted by Srikanth on Wednesday, 16 June 20102 Comments

If you are a Windows 7 user, then you are most likely be aware of the fact that you need to TAKE OWNERSHIP of files and folders before you can make any changes to them. This feature was introduced in order to prevent any unauthorized changes from being made to the system files. However it can be little annoying to follow a long list of procedure every time you want to take ownership of a certain file or folder. So to make this job simpler, I have found a nice tool called Take Ownership Shell Extension which adds the “Take Ownership” option to the Windows context menu. This makes taking ownership too simple and requires no more than a click.

Take Ownership

Just run the portable tool kit and click on the “Install” button. This will add the “Take Ownership” option onto the context menu. To take ownership all you need to do is, just right-click on any of the desired file or folder and click the option “Take Ownership“.

Take Ownership Menu

In case if you wish to uninstall this tool at any time, you can just run the tool again and click on the ”Uninstall” button. I hope you like this tool. This works on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. You can download it from the following link.

Download Take Ownership Shell Extention

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2 Comments »

  • thomas said:

    i tryed to do the windows 7 start button hack.
    so when i right clicked on explorer.exe it dont shows take ownership

  • seve said:

    explorer.exe is a application, you can Take ownership only a folder etc…

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