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Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:13 pm**

I want to take ownership of Context.exe but it don't let me anyway of takeing ownership of a file in vb that easy?

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Dim fileName As String = ("C:\Users\Devin\Desktop\Context.exe")
Dim arguments As String = ("takeown /f C:\Users\Devin\Desktop\Context.exe")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName, arguments)

it give me and Access is denied error

Posted: **Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:56 pm**

You would probably have to run the program as administrator

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:39 pm**

Hey Harlem9191 i had to use this code

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Dim fileName As String = ("C:\Users\Devin\Desktop\Context.exe")
Interaction.Shell(String.Concat(New String() {"cmd.exe /c takeown /f ", fileName, " && icacls ", fileName, " /grant administrators:F"}), AppWinStyle.Hide, False, -1)

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