Add “Take Ownership” Option to the Windows Vista Context Menu
Published by Sunny on April 9th, 2007 in Tips and TricksAs you might have known, Windows Vista is very protective about how you work with it. It blocks access to some protected folders and files that you need to take ownership for some reason. By using a small registry hack, you can get around this. Doing so, you can take owership of the Bootscreen and the rest.
The registry file “TOCM_add.reg” (right click -> Save Link As..) adds a Take Ownership Context Menu Item to all files and folders. It opens an elevated command prompt which recovers full access to the selected file, directory, sub directories and or their content.
You can access the Context Menu Item by holding down Shift and right-click on a file or folder. If you want to access the Take Ownership Context Menu Item on an exe file, you must merge “RunAsAdmin_remove.reg“. Doing this will remove the “Run as Administrator” Context Menu Item from all .exe files.
Merge the “RunAsAdmin_add.reg” if you want to restore the “Run as Administrator” Context Menu Item.
You can remove the Take Ownership Menu Item by merging “TOCM_remove.reg“.
[via Herby]
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April 10th, 2007 at 12:56 am
What the hell is Take Ownershi anyway?
April 10th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Me not using windows Vista..
BOOOHOOO……..
April 10th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Your loss Sameer.
Sunny, thanks for a cool tip.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:22 am
What does this do?
April 10th, 2007 at 10:48 am
@Pranav and Neelakanth-> Vista is designed to be Highly Secure, It Keeps Asking whether to “Allow/Disallow”, even for Opening Applications! Gets Annoying for a While.. So If you take Ownership of the File/Application, you can open it without any Annoying Dialogs.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Oh! So thats what it is…. thanks for the explanation
April 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Ah, That explains it. Thanks.
April 26th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Thank You
May 1st, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Thanx to the finder…..you rock….ownership made easy
May 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
i run this software bt still nor showing geniune then what to do………plz…HELP ME
June 9th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Thanks a lot, this was exactly what I needed and searched desperately!
June 10th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
used your take ownership, it didnt work
perhaps you could tell me if i am the only user of my pc, and i installed windows vista
why does the system refuse me on certain things
please advice
July 31st, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I am trying to copy files from my XP Pro machine to a Vista Business laptop and keep getting the message “Destination Access Folder Denied” “You need permission to perform this action.” I thought the “Take Ownership” would solve my problem but no such luck. Are there any known solutions to this nonsense?!?