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[Razor VinT]

If your are replacing or changing system files like (uxtheme.dll or imageres.dll) in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Vista then first you have to take ownership of the file and then grant your username full control of the file. Here's an easy way to do this:

 

Download "own.zip" from below, extract it and double click on "own.reg". It will add a new entry to your registry which will allow you to right click on any file you want to own and click on "Take Ownership".

 

own.zip

 own.zip   338bytes   36732 downloads

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To remove "Take Ownership" option from the right click menu, simply double click on "own_rem.reg".

own_rem.zip
 own_rem.zip   248bytes   13043 downloads

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If you don't like to use the registry files, then follow these steps for taking ownership of system files 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

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Or you can use this tool: Take Control, if you are afraid to play with registry files. The tool has been made by WinMatrix members XPero to take ownership and get full control of any system file with ease.

[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]

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]

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

Edited by baron75mk2, 22 January 2010 - 03:31 PM.

[baron75mk2]

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

I have read about you problem on your other post & replied ill put it on this post as well

OK i have just gone back to wmp12 & started the process again to try & see what could be causing this problem - i encountered various errors & this was caused by 3 different mistakes (which i did on purpose - to try to find out why you were getting this error)
The first problem could be - did you first before installing & or taking control of the files disable the windows media sharing service? because when i deliberately left this stage out i got a whole ton of errors

the second & most likely problem is that this file has not been taken control of properly (take control of the entire folder by right clicking the windows media player folder & take ownership)& just for your own piece of mind find this file & take control of it - its in the media player folder (mpvis.DLL) also don't forget to take control of all the wmp files in the system 32 folder as well

the third problem was caused by the final stage - you will notice the last instruction tells you to delete a registry key did you just delete the keys or the whole folder ? as when i deleted the key only it gave me back mp12 so this time delete the whole folder

hope this helps - repeat the process as i have described & you should be rid of media player 12 & back on media player 11 in no time

[markjl]

Forgive me, but i need help. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and i followed all your instructions but still was not able to downgrade WMP12 to 11. I'm having problems taking ownership of the files found in the System32 folder and en-US folder but was successfully able to take ownership of the files in the WMP in the Program Files folder.

any ideas on what might be my problem?? or is it really just not compatible for x64 systems?

[bluenavy9]

Forgive me, but i need help. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and i followed all your instructions but still was not able to downgrade WMP12 to 11. I'm having problems taking ownership of the files found in the System32 folder and en-US folder but was successfully able to take ownership of the files in the WMP in the Program Files folder.

any ideas on what might be my problem?? or is it really just not compatible for x64 systems?

Yup, same here. I'm also on the 64 bit version of Windows 7. Taking ownership of the Windows Media Player folder in 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)' was a breeze. It was also easy to do the same thing in the system32 folder. But this system32 folder shows that I have ownership and the permissions, but does not act like I have ownership and permission. It says I do, but I really do not. Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Phoenix Eagle]

HI thank you man for this WMP its very nice im happy because my advanced tag editor reurn again
it installed well but it seems not to be work well for example when i press play all in folder with mp3 files it just do nothing but it will appear an error i dont know i think in explorer or in wmp error please help me
thank you,,,

[asthenia]

Man, Windows Media Player 12 is annoying..
I tried following the instructions, but when I ran the installer it kept complaining about "can't copy this file(various files, about 15 of them)".
So, it didn't work. What could I have done wrong?