Add Take Ownership to Context Menu in Windows 10  

J4ck said:

Hi,

Any way to hide annoying powershell flash when taking ownership? Also is there a way to skip prompt and elevate the process by default? As i remember the older version would finish everything and exit without any annoying prompts or pauses... i wish i can replicate that behavior..

Hello Jack, and welcome to Ten Forums.

The old method used the "Runas" key in the registry which would still have the "Run as administrator" context menu for executable files instead of "Take Ownership". This is why the new method uses the PowerShell method to elevate instead to avoid this and have both, but yeah it does have the PowerShell flash to run the commands.

However, both methods will prompt for UAC approval by default depending on your UAC settings.

You could use the download from step 2 to not have a pause.

If you still want to use the old method, then you can use the tutorial below from Windows 7 that uses it. It will still work in Windows 10.

Take Ownership Shortcut - Windows 7 Help Forums

You're most welcome Jack.

With Insider Preview build 18890, localized to German, cmd returns the error
(translated from German): "value "y" cannot be used with switch /d"

Do I have to replace "y" by the German "j" (meaning ja=yes) ?
Thanks for guidance! Tom

tom11 said:

With Insider Preview build 18890, localized to German, cmd returns the error
(translated from German): "value "y" cannot be used with switch /d"

Do I have to replace "y" by the German "j" (meaning ja=yes) ?
Thanks for guidance! Tom

Hello Tom, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Correct. You would need to replace the "y" value with "j" instead for your language.

Here's a ready made .reg for German with this modification.

Add_German_Take_Ownership_with_Pause_to_context_menu.reg

You're most welcome Tom.

bamajon1974 said:

How would I modify the registry entry to take ownership of non-boot, optical and removable drives? The Windows 7 take ownership registry file has an additional entry for drives whereas the Windows 10 take ownership registry file does not, yet the descriptions at the beginning of both tutorial pages explicitly mention that the registry files do not allow taking ownership of the C drive as well as Program Files, Program Data. Etc. Can you clarify please? Thanks!

Take Ownership Shortcut - Windows 7 Help Forums

I have updated the tutorial to now include "Take Ownership" to the context menu of all drives except for the Windows "C:" drive.

To clarify on the folders mention at the top of the tutorial:

It just means that the "Take Ownership" context menu will not be available only when you right click on those specific folders, but will be available for the contents inside the folders.