Screwed?

[mohaughn]

Have you tried right clicking on the folder as administrator and adding your account back by using the "security" tab? Or tried using cacls to give yourself permissions?

http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true

If you have been specifically denied access to a file, you will have to remove that explicit deny before you can take ownership.


I just checked, the "administrators" group has ownership right on the my c: root. I also checked, and you can restrict an administrator from having the "take ownership" right by doing a deny on full control for the "users" group. By default the administrator account will always have the "take ownership" privilege, but you can override that with an explicit deny.