Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:34:47 -0500, R.H. Breener wrote:

Would it be safer to use an Unlocker and the TakeOwnership programs rather
then this Administrator account? They allow any file to be renamed, moved or
deleted. I know when I try to install Winmail and do some file renaming and
removing, I'll need that ability.

I can't speak to safer, but I'm sure it would be a *lot* easier, which
is not to be sneezed at...

OTOH, they are probably safer too.


Using TakeOwn from a menu, may affect more files or folders
than you really need to be modifying.

To get some understanding of what is going on, the
command line examples here are educational. And may
give ideas for more surgical attacks (limit the damage).

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive...deletable.aspx

takeown /f %1 /r /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t

In the first one, you don't have to use a "recursive"
option. You might consider removing the /r,
if changing the Program Files folder. That way, only
the top level folder would be changed, rather than
changing every program ever installed on the computer.

More info on takeown, here.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc753024.aspx

Paul