Re: Is it possible to completely control the files on my computer?
No disabling UAC will not solve the problem with access permissions on files and folders.
The reason is that file operations like reading, writing and executing depends on the user context.
In order to get unrestricted access to a file or folder one must first take ownership of it, and next grant oneself full access.
Well, the answer is not so simple, since one may theoretically have full access on a folder owned by another user or group, but to keep things simple, here is what you have to do:
1. Open an administrative command prompt.
(In Windows 8+ press Windows+X and activate Command prompt (admin).
2. From within the administrative command prompt you can take ownership and change access permissions:
Takeown /f xxx /r
The current user is granted ownership of the xxx mask.
In order to grant ownership to administrator add /a and or /user otheruser to grant ownership to another user.
icacls xxx /gra nt username:(oi)(ci)f /t
These commands are handy when you have lingering files and folders which are difficult to get rid of.
You can use everyone as user to grant everyone full permissions or administrator to grant permissions to administrator.
Note that programs are often run as the system user and adding the system user may sometimes be necessary.
Another possible trick is going into the context menu for the program (exe file) and check always run the program as administrator.
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