Admin Permissions For Full Control

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TimFlip

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I am sure there are better websites for help on topics like this, but I feel comfortable with this for now.

I'm wanting to get into programming, so I was editing a host file, but I did not have the permissions to save such file. I changed both administrators and users to having full control, but I do not get that. As I try to save the file again, I get the same message, "You do not have permission to change this file. Please contact and administrator for help." even though I am an admin.

I also downloaded the program TakeOwnershipEx and tried that. I am to no prevail. I am running Win 8, unfortunately, so any help would be much appreciated.
 
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Pinhedd

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If you're talking about the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, this file is owned by SYSTEM by default. This is done particularly to prevent programs from mucking with it as it will allow them to inject web redirects. You will need to change the file owner to Administrator (or Administrators) in order to save changes to it. You can do this as follows

Right Click -> Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> Change (to the right of Owner) and search for either Administrator or Administrators
 
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TimFlip

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I have already tried this. I changed it to all admins. I also tried changing it to all users..
 
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