Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key in Windows 10  

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Thanks for the forum welcome. I'm about 90% done creating a USB installation at the moment and will try a restore point.

For future reference, when taking ownership of files and folders, are there any other locations which should be left alone? Would the program files folders be safe to grab ownership?

Thanks,
James

On this topic of ownership issues with file or drive I have managed to loose ownership and therefore access of C drive. Is there
anything I can do to save this 4 year old Acer desktop, was running perfect up to my mistake with permissions.

I am familiar with restore, reset system etc. I tried all these but wont run. Tried to boot in safe mode no luck and
when used a back up restore from flash drive booted up but just comes up to regular system but problem remains.
Shows drive c not accessible and shows o bytes. It seems as if windows system has locked out admin or users and
most apps wont run. system very unstable but all items show on desktop. Tried going into advanced security does
not show owner and just freezes when try to access any items. Thanks for the welcome and hope you can help.

I don't have system image not sure it would run thru any external source based on what I have tried ie back up restore with
flash drive. I am no sure how to reinstall windows when only have source on hard drive which I cannot access.

I did see this info in your forums and will try. Thanks for your time. Will work on tonight and let you
know. One last thought regarding built in admin. Do you think if able to enable thru command prompt
that I might gain access to c drive.?