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Just installed Vista Home Basic, I have never used Vista. I have 632
pictures that I have to take ownership of, and so far the directions the
Help and Support Center (within Windows) gives, is not working. The only way
I have figured out how to do the job is one at a time. Is there any way of
doing this in a bulk type form (multiple pictures at a time)? I have not
even reached half, and I'm already tired of doing it. Did I forget to
mention, I cannot cut my losses and just delete them and start from scratch,
as I don't have "permission" to do so. So far I have been going into each
individual file's properties, clicking the security tab, and selecting my
user as the owner, but even so, I still have to do it twice, as Windows
creates its own imaginary user that still doesn't unlock the file. Any
suggestions?

In article <OjOAi.98353$fJ5.68958@pd7urf1no>, PKSon
<> wrote:

> Just installed Vista Home Basic, I have never used Vista. I have 632
> pictures that I have to take ownership of, and so far the directions the
> Help and Support Center (within Windows) gives, is not working. The only way
> I have figured out how to do the job is one at a time. Is there any way of
> doing this in a bulk type form (multiple pictures at a time)? I have not
> even reached half, and I'm already tired of doing it. Did I forget to
> mention, I cannot cut my losses and just delete them and start from scratch,
> as I don't have "permission" to do so. So far I have been going into each
> individual file's properties, clicking the security tab, and selecting my
> user as the owner, but even so, I still have to do it twice, as Windows
> creates its own imaginary user that still doesn't unlock the file. Any
> suggestions?
>

Under Mac OS, if we wanted to do this, we'd apply the changes to a
folder containing them all. I think it's similar under Linux and Unix.

If you're really lucky, and the Microsoft guys envied that, there is a
way to do the same under Windows.