taking ownership of system 32 files

I am the only account under vista 64bit and at the same time the
administrator, I am not able to replace and edit some dll files??? i wouldn't
give me full rights although I am the admin??

please feedback appreciated

Admin has all rights, except they don't. And
you're running as Admin, except that you're not.

Fun with Vista.

This explains it, in an Orwellian sort of way:

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http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...-2b2f-422c-b70
e-b18ff918c2811033.mspx

"Administrative users automatically have:
- Read/Write/Execute permissions to all resources
- All Windows privileges

Note:

Windows Vista protects %systemroot% files and folders with permissions
designed for Windows Resource Protection (WRP), which can only be accessed
by the System service. Administrators can read system files and folders but
cannot write to them. Note that this differs from previous versions of
Windows."

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To *really* run as Admin see here:

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk...r_activate.htm

> I am the only account under vista 64bit and at the same time the
> administrator, I am not able to replace and edit some dll files??? i
wouldn't
> give me full rights although I am the admin??
>
> please feedback appreciated

Even though you are a admin, you don't have all of your superpowers....

Your subject says it all... you need to use Takeown and icacls

http://www.google.com/search?q=vista...GGL_en_____215

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2...deletable.aspx





"maxvista" <> wrote in message
news:C2E9DC74-72E1-472F-9DB0-...
> I am the only account under vista 64bit and at the same time the
> administrator, I am not able to replace and edit some dll files??? i
> wouldn't
> give me full rights although I am the admin??
>
> please feedback appreciated

Hi,

You don't need to take ownership, you just need to run with elevated
privileges. I would suggest that you do not attempt to alter Vista's library
files.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"maxvista" <> wrote in message
news:C2E9DC74-72E1-472F-9DB0-...
>I am the only account under vista 64bit and at the same time the
> administrator, I am not able to replace and edit some dll files??? i
> wouldn't
> give me full rights although I am the admin??
>
> please feedback appreciated