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By Abhishek Ghosh December 14, 2010 11:19 am Updated on December 14, 2010

Solution for Windows 7 is not allowing access to owner’s own file

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Many of you have faced the problem of accessing the files created with previous Windows installation. They simply deny to to get copied, moved or modified even from Administrator account under Microsoft Windows 7.

There is a procedure to move the file or folder and to implement it in administrator mode via its properties in Windows 7. Handling such a situation is a bit annoying and it quickly becomes tedious if it involves many files.

There are some registry tricks that allows you to add a context menu option to retrieve those files upon a single right click.

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Just a bit tweaking results in three types of registry entries: Grant administrator, Forcing owner entry (also known as take ownership) and Recover access to the file entry.

However, we are supplying you the highest possible entry : The Grant administrator registry entry and another reg file to remove this entry. Just double click the Grant administrator reg file and accept the prompts. You will get a right click context menu named “Grant administrator” :

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Just right click over the files you want and Windows 7 will allow you to access the files.

In addition, we have added a registry file to remove this command and entry from regedit and a text file too.

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Solution for Windows 7 is not allowing access to owner’s own file," in The Customize Windows, December 14, 2010, January 31, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2010/12/solution-for-windows-7-is-not-allowing-access-to-owners-own-file/.

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