Can i change the "Windows" Folder permissions?

Read this and comment if necessary
http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-files-folder-in-windows-7.htm

is it still greyed out if you are logged in as administrator? i mean not just a user with admin rights, the actual administrator

I dont think you would WANT to do this, for sooo many reasons. I know you might consider it to be a need to make a function easier for someone, but thats dangerous......

I turned off UAC and now there are some options that are not greyed out anymore. However, when i press the OK or Apply button i get the error "Access is denied". Ive tried to change ownership as well and receive a simlar error. (please see attached doc)
This was done as Local Administrator.


error.docx

Do you have a specific program that is not working because of this?

Im trying to run a .msi with silent switches. After viewing the log file - i see it attempts to create a temp file in c:\Windows but fails..

Ive actually managed to partly do this now by taking ownership. Ive done it with our domain admin account. I dont why this worked when local admin did not.
Its let me change permissions for the Windows directory but denied me lots of sub folders (probably 40 or 50 which i just OK'd past.

I guess im gonna have to try and alter the .msi now to change where it opens as using the above for multiple users is not practical.

Are you in an Active Directory environment?  If so  you should be able to deploy this MSI using Group Policy which will get you around the UAC issue.  The real problem here is you have to deploy this with the "run as administrator"

You could also install this msi using msiexec from an elevated command prompt which should get you around this issue.