Get around permission errors in Windows 7

Question

Apparently I'm an Administrator:

So why am I running into this kind of dialog all the time:

Whose permission do I need? Is there a way to sudo in Windows 7?

Answer 1

You might be transferring content to a folder on an NTFS formatted drive that you are not the owner of (this happens to me a lot while transferring stuff to external storage drives)

You need to take ownership of the folder to get around this.

Use this or take a look here to do this manually.

Taking Ownership of a folder (recursively)

1. Select the folder in Explorer and press Alt+Enter

2. Switch to the Security tab and click Advanced

3. Click the Change button

4. Enter your username in the Select User or Group dialog box that pops up and click OK

5. Make sure you tick both Replace owner... and Replace all child object... checkboxes and click OK. you should now be the owner of the folder and all folders and files within that folder.