Take Control of Vista.

[Minifig]

Take Control lets you take ownership and get full control of any system file with ease (Windows Vista only).

Because I found this on another forum, I'll link to their forum.

Extremely useful tool.

[BlakByte]

Awesome, thanks.

[mattrobs]

Aww, it only does files. What about the Fonts folder?

[ginfest]

Handy little file, ty :)

[LisKiller]

I'm already using it. Very useful tool! (Y)

[FryzDog]

Very nice find. Thanks for the post.

[Island Dog]

Interesting little tool. Thanks for posting. :)

[Oneder]

I don't advocate anyone do as I have done and it's up to you.

Being a control freak here and when the desktop comes up after installing Vista Ultimate I set the local security policy to show the admin account at boot.

On booting into the admin account I delete the account that you are forced to create at install.

Vista now boots straight into the admin account and I go about installing my security and maintenance apps.

Even now system control is too restrictive in that I may want to delete some system files.

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Local Security Policy - Local Policies - Security Options - Accounts:Administrator account status - Enable, reboot and the admin account should show up.

And:

With all the new security in Vista, many get frustrated by their inability to open folders that were easily accessible under XP. In many cases, full access to these folders requires that the user take ownership of it.

This tweak adds the "Take Ownership" option to folder context menus, saving a lot of time and possible errors that can result from doing it manually.

Copy the text between the lines, paste in a Notepad window, save the file to your desktop as ownership.reg and then right-click the file and Merge it with your registry.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]

@="Take Ownership"

"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]

@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"

"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]

@="Take Ownership"

"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]

@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"

"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"