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  • Your link to your post is busted. Always quote the most relevant part of an important link in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline. You do have enough rep to answer. Your Step 7: "follow the instructions": Always quote the most relevant part of an important link in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline. I did not have to take ownership. Why did you have to?, how did you go about it? and why is that not in your answer? Your answer needs clarity.
    – somebadhat
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 14:17
  • @somebadhat: Removed link. Step 7 links to this post, so if it is unreachable or goes permanently offline, then there's no hope anyway (lol). As for taking ownership, that's not the point of this post and therefore I didn't include it. There are plenty of resources available to find out how to do that.
    – user
    Commented May 10, 2020 at 18:55
  • cant change those folders even as administrator Commented Jul 11, 2020 at 6:06
  • @stackOverlord: you'll have to right click the folder, click Properties, select the Security tab, click Advanced at the bottom, then you can click Change next to the listed owner.
    – user
    Commented Jul 12, 2020 at 0:26
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    then in the Select User or Group dialog that pops up, click advanced, Find Now, and you can select your user account. Then click OK, OK, follow the steps to disable inheritance as instructed by @Livven, and you should be good to go.
    – user
    Commented Jul 12, 2020 at 0:27