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Accept all cookies Customize settings. I understand the properties differences associated with the same username on different operating systems, however following all of the above instructions are not solving our problem. We have a domain server SBS. All of our users have administrator accounts. This is not a shortcut, its a folder with a few files including a. We've tried doing the entire folder and individual files including the.
None of it can be accessed in any way other than reading. Taking ownership from XP fails to work in exactly the same manner. Its really a pain as we're trying to backup data before doing a format, but can't copy a particular folder.
I haven't seen this issue addressed here yet. I'm wondering how many people are having the same problem, rather than just not understanding how to take ownership.
This seems to be a serious Windows 7 glitch that all the experts are walking around rather than addressing not that I'm suggesting they are doing so intentionally. Sunday, January 31, AM.
Proposed as answer by seseberg Wednesday, March 3, AM. Wednesday, March 3, AM. Glad to hear it helped seseberg! I'm one of the authors of Access Gain Tool so in case something doesn't work as expected you can always ask here and we will try to come up with a solution.
Wednesday, March 3, PM. That fix is greatly appreciated Seseberg. Although its too late for me to try now couldn't wait any longer and formatted, losing the folder I was having problems with on the last occasion I'll be sure to save it for the next time. Thursday, March 4, AM. Guys, I don't want to brag, but the guy who made the AccessGain Filter is a romanian, and, romanian is the second spoken language in Microsoft Corporation At least that's what I know Has it changed lately?
I am curious as to what the culprit of this whole utterly annoying issue is Don't permissions apply hierarchically to all files and folders once ownership is changed and permissions are modified?
Is the Safe Mode Administrator any diferent privilege-wise than the normal Administrator that everyone uses? This is so annoying Well what do you know, exactly as I suspected Conclusion: the safe mode administrator is MORE privileged than the everyday administrator rights account that everybody uses Sorry if it caused any confusion, but DKW41 is also me can never keep track of all my MS accounts and they're no help for merging them all together.
I know that safe mode as Administrator made no difference in my situation. Whether its more powerful or not, I don't know. Whatever account I logged into both in safe mode and not took ownership correctly, but still when trying to edit or move the files I got an error saying whoever just took control would have to authorise it. Was really hoping this fix would resolve that issue. So safe mode as administrator solved your problem, but Access Gain Tool did not?
Curious because I know of a few users on other forums who have the same problem as I do and would really appreciate a fix. Friday, March 5, AM. This entire thread is ridiculous. After I upgraded to W7 by starting with a new hard disk, I have no admin access even though I am the admin.
I am not going to go through every damn file on my computer to change this by hand. I am a reasonably savvy user, but this is just a great example of why the world is moving the mac platform.
Non-thinking responses aimed at computer scientists, awful software implementation with no thought to actual end users, crappy QA. I should not have to stomach some lame explanation for why I can't access my own damn files.
I am pissed beyond belief. This should have taken five seconds, not multiple hours. No one at MS ever accepts any responsibility for the fact that their stuff just never works. Monday, March 8, AM. Agree completely, 2planker. It feels as if a virus has taken over my machine - and its a new laptop I just bought. After this, its Mac or some variety of Linux for me. Monday, March 8, PM. This has worked for me, although it is a bit cumbersome. Forgive me if this is general knowledge.
It appears to be appropriate. Navigate to your directory using cmd or PowerShell Or better yet, use the 'open command prompt here tweak : You can perform the following from any location but navigating to the directory saves you a lot of typing. Close the cmd window and then delete the files. Once the files are gone, go up a level and do the same to the directory. Delete it. Usually what I will do is to use wildcards within a directory to make my life easier.
I have had mixed success with taking ownerships of directories and having it propagate throughout the directory and subdirectories. If that is the case, you might have to do this one directory or subdirectory at a time. Don't forget to close cmd prompt windows that are actively in the directory you want to delete. I suppose you could write a batch command for the above wildcard commands and put it in your path.
That way, all you would have to do it open the command prompt to the correct directory and type "sudo. This worked for my problem which arose from system files on a 2nd hard drive that used to be a system disk on an xp machine. Your mileage may vary. I support that wholeheartedly. As you said, it is extremely irritating that the OS can block me, the sole user and owner of the system.
Besides, I still haven't been able to put my favorite programs in the startup folder - so that they start up at boot time. That includes Microsoft's own Process Explorer. It appears that the system will not allow me to run that program without showing a user access control prompt every freakin' time! In Win 7, I let it run, thinking that I shall let it do its job - but perhaps it's time to take it out altogether.
What can be more frustrating and irritating than a UAC prompt that has no capacity for learning? Tuesday, March 9, AM.
I guess I'm a bit more patient with these things than some people. I agree that its aggravating, but no more for me than any other computer issue. So in MS's defense, people scream that they want security and MS implements some very good tools to remedy that situation although still a bit buggy. If MS did nothing, people would scream at that. The thing is that security is an ongoing issue which gets more complicated every day, so not like one fix is going to be the end all for the situation.
Personally, I'm more happy that they're trying new things, rather than sitting on what they've done in the past. And anyone who thinks switching to Apple or Linux OS is going to solve all their computer issues is just plain out of touch. Get ready for a whole new learning curve and a whole new set of problems. When you get tired of the limitations and problems of those OS's, you'll be back. I am and have been a long time MS user, and have not yet switched completely to the Dark Side.
But security surely doesn't need to include idiocy? Your loyalty to MS is admirable, but your reasonings leave a lot to be desired, I'm afraid. The UAC implementation in Win7 is plain idiotic. Wednesday, March 10, PM. There's a lot more new security features in Win 7 than just UAC. As for my loyalties, I'm a system builder. My loyalty to MS is fully dependant upon what our customers want, and what works for me. I've never yet had a customer ask for a system with Linux installed on it, and we don't sell Macs obviously.
I play with Linux myself from time to time so that I'm prepared, just in case. I have 2 nephews who went through college with graphic arts majors and heard horror stories weekly about how they were sharing systems because the Apples PowerMac G4s kept dying as fast as they were repaired.
Their most powerful system is still equal to our bottom of the line system, but our niche is medium-high end to high end systems. Saturday, March 13, PM. The reason they cannot be accessed has nothing to do with object ownership - it has to do with the permissions set for the single object in question.
Not sure if this helps. My OS drive had an error on boot up that I couldn't get around Permission Denied - probably due to different boot passwords etc. This allowed me to copy the folder to another directory. On a hunch, I used the same Backup program to restore the copy I just made - this beautifully gives an option to "Remove Security Settings" and to restore to a different directory advanced settings.
I restored the backup and can now access the previously "secured" files. Kind of a long way around - but hey, I'm happy I didn't lose all my files.
Sunday, June 6, PM. Wednesday, June 16, PM. Hey Folks! How idiotic can you get? And worse yet MS supports it! Pffaaaa Really annoyed now Monday, July 5, PM. Thursday, August 5, AM.
Ziegler 0. Thursday, August 5, PM. Zeigler, It'll be interesting to see if this helps anyone, as it doesn't work on our machines Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on domain server with Win SBS. Of course I can't delete RunAs afterwards either because of this.
Friday, August 6, AM. Simply brilliant! Tried the rest. Then, tried the best! You're da man! Friday, April 22, PM. I changed it to the second Administrator Now, when I want to delete a file or folder that has administrator rights, I get a popup, but there is a button that enables me to go on! Wednesday, June 1, AM. Friday, June 3, PM. I have had the same problem. What a killer. Monday, June 6, PM.
Thank you. I tried this and worked like a wonder. Appreciate your detailed instructions. Thursday, July 21, AM. Monday, December 5, PM. Saturday, December 10, PM. I do want to say thanks Been fighting with this for about a month Everyone wants you run the same scans with the same results I tryed your way and all broke lose an this thing Dont know how long it will stay seemed to adapt to it quickley but my bit defender picked up some files before it froze..
Anymore advise would be much appreciated this thing is scarey mean Wednesday, January 11, PM. Monday, January 16, AM. Wednesday, January 18, PM. Just wasted a complete afternoon and evening trying to solve this problem of having complete Administrator rights over my machine but still not being able to delete a directory and files.
Have tried everything, yes everything including all the work rounds above to no avail. The UAC in Windows 7 is just as it was in, dare I say it Vista, just there to encourage us to think life has no purpose, no meaning and to stick our fingers in the USB port in the hope of a short circuit and a quick exit from this Microsoft misery.
No wonder people are switching to Mac's, I use to have the patents but now its just a bore. I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is, I'm convinced that the hard drive in my machine, although the computer was custom built for me, has had a pre-used hard drive put in and the directory and files I am seeing are from a previous but not correctly deleted installation i.
Windows 7 is seeing them as shared files. Can't Microsoft come up with a simple solution to what I'm sure is not an isolated problem? Tuesday, February 21, PM. After going in circles for a while, I found that the following worked: 0 Follow the detailed instructions provided in the earlier post by Robinson Zhang to make myself the owner of the folder to be deleted along with all of its subfolders and files. Thursday, February 23, AM. I was unable to delete some mp3 files that I had previously stored on an external hard drive even though I was logged in as administrator.
The thing that worked for me was to create another user account with administrator privileges. After changing to that account I had complete access and was able to delete the files without difficulty. Wednesday, March 7, PM. Saturday, March 31, PM. It appears that these are symbolic links and that WIn7 hasn't got the wherewithal to follow the symlink to the real folder to assess the security settings.
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