Permissions greyed out, cannot take ownership.

Windows 10. Trying to get on top of MS W10 ownership and permissions is something which I know from experience is bad for my mental health. But I am trying to understand what might be wrong here. I am simply trying to edit a .txt file in...

I've been getting a few annoying DistributedCOM warnings (Event ID 10016) in Event Viewer such as... The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID...

Hi guys! I have an external drive with a lot of files (about 2,000,000 files). For about 500 of them (which are all located in sub-folders of the same folder), Windows 10 says I don't have the permissions to access the files no matter which...

I created a Guest account in Windows 10 and I wanted to restrict its access to my other drives/partitions. I managed to do it for my other drives via security/permission settings, but I'm encountering a bunch of error messages such as "failed to...

In my trusty Win 7 I had installed/inserted a 'take ownership' command in the normal task bar when right clicking on an object. I think this was from Brink ? Is this available in 10 and is it the same process to install it ? Thanks....TiminAz