[Razor VinT]

If your are replacing or changing system files like (uxtheme.dll or imageres.dll) in Windows Vista then first you have to take ownership of the file and then grant your username full control of the file.



Just add this file to your redistry and right click on the file you want to own and click on "Take Ownership".
 own.zip (338bytes)
Number of downloads: 30636

To remove the feature just run this file.
 own_rem.zip (248bytes)
Number of downloads: 11485

If you don't like above registery files, then follow these steps to do this manually:
Start button > All Programs > Accessories > Right-click on Command Prompt > Select Run as administrator > Click Continue.
At the command prompt, input takeown /f filepath
Now input icacls filepath /grant yourusername:f


Or use this tool:

XPero has made a handy tool to take ownership and get full control of any system file with ease.

This post has been edited by Razor VinT: 13 July 2007 - 12:04 PM

[parry]

Now this makes thing much..much easier Thanks!

[cmkumar2k]

wow.. that's interesting..

[Mohsin Naqi]

Thanks man, it will save me a lot of clicking and time.

[timbertide]

I'm using XPero's Take Control. It's working flawlessly.

[kaironxp]

does it work with any version of Vista?? Spanish for example.

bye

[ShamusHand]

Doesn't work for me... Windows Vista Home Premium, and I don't see it in context menu...

[WhistAler]

ShamusHand
Take Control works for me. Give it a try.

[nealloy]

thank u very much. just one more thing if i select 'No GUY boot' to modify the boot manager i get a small notification from windows defender that some start up program has been blocked. how could i avoid this notification? and which file has to take ownership to replace that boot screen downloaded from ur post?

[AMIRZ]

Very useful tweak! Awesome! Thx!

[Dudu Rocha]

It's not working well in w7
it opens the cmd and run normally but when i try to use it in an instalation it not works :S
why??

[baron75mk2]

Dudu Rocha, on 07 October 2009 - 02:44 AM, said:

It's not working well in w7
it opens the cmd and run normally but when i try to use it in an instalation it not works :S
why??

i just downloaded & used this to get windows media player 11 for windows 7 installed & it worked perfectly - i`m on windows 7 ultimate (32bit - x86)- are you using a 64bit version of windows ? maybe its not compatible with x64 systems ? - also what file/folder are you trying to take control of ? - possibly if the file is in use you need to shut down the program that`s using it first (not sure if this is the case as when i did media player 11 i disabled it from the remove windows features list first)- also i had to re-boot before context menu was there - also maybe turn off uac as well as i dont have this enabled on my system & with this reg file installed i can take ownership of any thing on my pc - hope this helps it does work on 7

[hoofey]

i wanna take controle of WMP 12 files, to downgrade to WMP 11.
i dont understand that programm who can help me please.

[baron75mk2]

hoofey, on 22 January 2010 - 12:21 PM, said:

i wanna take controle of WMP 12 files, to downgrade to WMP 11.
i dont understand that programm who can help me please.

go to page 2 for solutions

This post has been edited by baron75mk2: 22 January 2010 - 03:31 PM