Comments on: CyberNotes: Take Ownership of Files in Vista http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-take-ownership-of-files-in-vista/ Technology News Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:30:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-take-ownership-of-files-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-136456 Ryan Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:59:51 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12150#comment-136456 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136353">Michael Dobrofsky wrote:</a><blockquote>Oh Ryan, you have got to be kidding me! I have just this last hour been trying to fix a user’s directory name by renaming or deleting it and letting it recreate and do you think I could do it? I found a registry key called Take Ownership but couldn’t even get it into the registry thanks to UAC and permissions. Anyways, in a long way round managed to fix my issue. Then I surf to Cybernet News and the first news item is about Taking Ownership and How-To ;)</blockquote></div> Hey, you commented at 8AM and this posted at 6AM... so it looks like you just need to visit us earlier in the morning. ;) <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136353">Michael Dobrofsky wrote:</a><blockquote>Anyways, just want to put my 2 cents in here - Vista’s permission system is ridiculous. Just plain dumb. If I am an administrator and want to rename or delete, I damn well should be able to. Otherwise, what’s the friggin’ point of being an admin? And it wouldn’t even let me do anything even AFTER I supplied credentials at the UAC prompt? Honestly, what kind of joke is this? So really, admin on Vista isn’t really being an admin at all. It’s a laughing stock OS design. Microsoft have no clue sometimes. Correct me if I’m wrong. It makes me seriously wanna bail on Vista and move to something else. And, P.S. this from a loooooooongtime Windows user.</blockquote></div> They definitely went a little overboard with it, but it can be disabled after all. For me it's not that annoying, but there are an excessive amount of prompts at times. I'm sure it will get fine tuned in a future release. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136370">spock1982 wrote:</a><blockquote>I run a stand alone file manager program and launch it as administrator and that cured all my problems with moving, deleting and modifying files. Works great and should not be a security issue as long as malware does not attempt to utilize that program.</blockquote></div> Yeah, that's really the only bad thing is that a virus would be able to utilize anything that you take ownership of. But there aren't many apps that virus creators can count on being installed on many computers, and so it's unlikely that they would take the time to do so. Michael Dobrofsky wrote:
Oh Ryan, you have got to be kidding me! I have just this last hour been trying to fix a user’s directory name by renaming or deleting it and letting it recreate and do you think I could do it? I found a registry key called Take Ownership but couldn’t even get it into the registry thanks to UAC and permissions. Anyways, in a long way round managed to fix my issue. Then I surf to Cybernet News and the first news item is about Taking Ownership and How-To ;)

Hey, you commented at 8AM and this posted at 6AM… so it looks like you just need to visit us earlier in the morning. ;)

Michael Dobrofsky wrote:
Anyways, just want to put my 2 cents in here – Vista’s permission system is ridiculous. Just plain dumb. If I am an administrator and want to rename or delete, I damn well should be able to. Otherwise, what’s the friggin’ point of being an admin? And it wouldn’t even let me do anything even AFTER I supplied credentials at the UAC prompt? Honestly, what kind of joke is this? So really, admin on Vista isn’t really being an admin at all. It’s a laughing stock OS design. Microsoft have no clue sometimes. Correct me if I’m wrong. It makes me seriously wanna bail on Vista and move to something else. And, P.S. this from a loooooooongtime Windows user.

They definitely went a little overboard with it, but it can be disabled after all. For me it’s not that annoying, but there are an excessive amount of prompts at times. I’m sure it will get fine tuned in a future release.

spock1982 wrote:
I run a stand alone file manager program and launch it as administrator and that cured all my problems with moving, deleting and modifying files. Works great and should not be a security issue as long as malware does not attempt to utilize that program.

Yeah, that’s really the only bad thing is that a virus would be able to utilize anything that you take ownership of. But there aren’t many apps that virus creators can count on being installed on many computers, and so it’s unlikely that they would take the time to do so.

]]> By: spock1982 http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-take-ownership-of-files-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-136370 spock1982 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:43 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12150#comment-136370 I run a stand alone file manager program and launch it as administrator and that cured all my problems with moving, deleting and modifying files. Works great and should not be a security issue as long as malware does not attempt to utilize that program. I run a stand alone file manager program and launch it as administrator and that cured all my problems with moving, deleting and modifying files. Works great and should not be a security issue as long as malware does not attempt to utilize that program.

]]> By: jacques http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-take-ownership-of-files-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-136369 jacques Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:43:26 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12150#comment-136369 @m.dobrofsky Being a loooOOng windows user and almost so much hardly hurted/annoyed with Vista's UAC prompt, yes, you're right. Better change to move on something else. For no one knows how to bypass this. Please look vista closer. Friendly. @m.dobrofsky
Being a loooOOng windows user and almost so much hardly hurted/annoyed with Vista’s UAC prompt, yes, you’re right. Better change to move on something else.
For no one knows how to bypass this.
Please look vista closer. Friendly.

]]> By: Michael Dobrofsky http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-take-ownership-of-files-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-136353 Michael Dobrofsky Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:06:39 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12150#comment-136353 Oh Ryan, you have got to be kidding me! I have just this last hour been trying to fix a user's directory name by renaming or deleting it and letting it recreate and do you think I could do it? I found a registry key called Take Ownership but couldn't even get it into the registry thanks to UAC and permissions. Anyways, in a long way round managed to fix my issue. Then I surf to Cybernet News and the first news item is about Taking Ownership and How-To :P Coulda used it an hour ago! ;) Anyways, just want to put my 2 cents in here - Vista's permission system is ridiculous. Just plain dumb. If I am an administrator and want to rename or delete, I damn well should be able to. Otherwise, what's the friggin' point of being an admin? And it wouldn't even let me do anything even AFTER I supplied credentials at the UAC prompt? Honestly, what kind of joke is this? So really, admin on Vista isn't really being an admin at all. It's a laughing stock OS design. Microsoft have no clue sometimes. Correct me if I'm wrong. It makes me seriously wanna bail on Vista and move to something else. And, P.S. this from a loooooooongtime Windows user. Oh Ryan, you have got to be kidding me! I have just this last hour been trying to fix a user’s directory name by renaming or deleting it and letting it recreate and do you think I could do it? I found a registry key called Take Ownership but couldn’t even get it into the registry thanks to UAC and permissions. Anyways, in a long way round managed to fix my issue. Then I surf to Cybernet News and the first news item is about Taking Ownership and How-To :P Coulda used it an hour ago! ;)

Anyways, just want to put my 2 cents in here – Vista’s permission system is ridiculous. Just plain dumb. If I am an administrator and want to rename or delete, I damn well should be able to. Otherwise, what’s the friggin’ point of being an admin? And it wouldn’t even let me do anything even AFTER I supplied credentials at the UAC prompt? Honestly, what kind of joke is this? So really, admin on Vista isn’t really being an admin at all. It’s a laughing stock OS design. Microsoft have no clue sometimes. Correct me if I’m wrong. It makes me seriously wanna bail on Vista and move to something else. And, P.S. this from a loooooooongtime Windows user.

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