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The Explorer context menu is what appears when you right click something. One important option for system administrators is the ‘take ownership’ option. It allows you to move, add or change files and folders contained within the resource you clicked. Having it as a right click option speeds up administration of computers drastically, so here is how to add 'Take Ownership' to Explorer context menu in Windows 10.
Take Ownership will grant you access rights to whatever entity you need. It allows you to take ownership of an entire drive, folder or file and change the owner, security, permissions and even delete it altogether. Therefore, you should be careful who you grant this power to…
Add 'Take Ownership' to Explorer context menu in Windows 10
Adding the Take Ownership option to Explorer is actually quite simple. For once, I don’t actually know the CMD commands for this one, I tend to use a download that does it for me.
1. Download this script (it’s currently safe as I use it myself).
2. Run Take Ownership – Install to add the dialog to right click.
3. Run Take Ownership – Uninstall to remove the dialog.
Test between each and run the process to completion to test fully. When you right click a disk, file or folder, you should see a CMD window pop up and a series of commands fly through. Each is a separate command for the individual resources you’re changing. The more folders or files within the resource, the longer this process takes.
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