Tuesday, March 31, 2009

delete residual windows files in 7

following lines will give ownership of the files or directory to the administrator in current windows

for files
takeown /f file_name /d y
icacls file_name /grant administrators:F

for directories
takeown /f directory_name /r /d y
icacls directory_name /grant administrators:F /t

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