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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

How To Add "Take Ownership" option to Right-Click Menu : Hack

Taking ownership of system files or folders in Windows 7 or Vista is not a simple task. Whether you use the GUI or the command line, it takes far too many steps. Take ownership option will also help you to delete  the files you were not able to.
Thankfully somebody created a registry hack that will give you a menu item for “Take Ownership” that will handle all the steps for you.
Here’s what the new right-click menu will look like after installing this registry hack.

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Install
Download and unzip the files contained in the zipfile. Double-click the InstallTakeOwnership.reg file and click through the prompts. No reboot necessary.
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Uninstall
Double-click the RemoveTakeOwnership.reg file and click through the prompts. No reboot necessary.

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