Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
Windows 10 Change Or Modify File Permissions and Delete From Outside Windows
If you are really stuck deleting or changing/modifying a file or directory...
We have shown two previous videos to change, modify, delete files, folders and their permissions. Sometimes this can only be done outside of the Windows environment using the Windows Repair USB/DVD/ISO.
This Video shows how to fix those permission problems.
For more visit:
https://www.windows10.ninja
servers2016.com
Transcript (machine generated so it contains errors)
And welcome to today's video. This is a video dad is similar to 2 of our previous fears regarding permissions and how to delete files or modify files and folders that are locked by may be the windows system or other lock by a certain program and averages two videos help tens and tens of thousands of people and was fine. However, we did keep getting that one question. It doesn't work for me doesn't work for me. Okay, from a select few people, so now hopefully we can show you how to delete, modify a file from outside of windows. Okay, but will just give a quick refresher from before. Okay, so I write it windows folder okay System32 anything which it could be anything from icate with grid of a file or folder called test was the properties good security were gonna go advanced okay now. Some people say, hey, and administrator. I cannot delete it. Okay, yes, okay, now if administrators are not over here. Okay, or if it's owned by for example system and your an administrator and administrator is not over here similar thing. So what actually do. I'm gonna start off with from within windows and then go outside the windows so change account gonna make the owner as windows's Joe okay, it'll find it brilliant all good. Okay, replace the owner on this. Click okay, that's fine. Click okay just to make sure then reopening up and go to properties security advanced now as you can see the owners windows ninja but there is no windows ninja over here now. This could be one of the reasons why you are unable to delete, change, modify, okay, so all we need to do well in this click add, click select principle finder windows ninja. Okay, that's our username and give a valid question the past what do I type for principle. If your username okay if you don't know what your username is basically ecosystem okay, and click on settings, click on users accounts again, you'll find your username so that's okay, give it full control, click okay. Click okay. Click yes, that's fine. Close down there now you should be other deleted. You should be owed to modify if you are still unable to do all this after doing these two things where you're also the owner. You are also somewhere in here and you've given yourself full control okay. You may want to try disable inheritance and then add your user in again on here are Caldas try disable inheritance. Okay. Convert all into the this remove all inherited and as you can see all are left with is our windows ninja. Now click okay. Click yes, you write to close them down. You might need to restart your computer and hopefully all works. If it doesn't, and this is the part where many people have had trouble because it might be locked by a program that keeps restarting every time you restart the computer, it locks the file. It takes ownership of the file every time restarts, and is a never-ending story so very simply, what was done. We've got a your speed desk or USB thumb desk with gone to Google okay with, type in windows 10 ISO simple as that. It takes us to the Microsoft official site makes make sure you go there not some other website, click on their now that create the windows 10 installation media to what this does is it's going to download windows 10. The all windows 10 DVD ISO and its gonna install it to our USB disk. You can skip the minute getting a few things ready, so this is the steps that you are taking okay Rita the licence be sure you're okay with that. Click accept. It'll still take take take take.
Windows 10 Change Or Modify File Permissions and Delete From Outside Windows
If you are really stuck deleting or changing/modifying a file or directory...
We have shown two previous videos to change, modify, delete files, folders and their permissions. Sometimes this can only be done outside of the Windows environment using the Windows Repair USB/DVD/ISO.
This Video shows how to fix those permission problems.
For more visit:
https://www.windows10.ninja
servers2016.com
Transcript (machine generated so it contains errors)
And welcome to today's video. This is a video dad is similar to 2 of our previous fears regarding permissions and how to delete files or modify files and folders that are locked by may be the windows system or other lock by a certain program and averages two videos help tens and tens of thousands of people and was fine. However, we did keep getting that one question. It doesn't work for me doesn't work for me. Okay, from a select few people, so now hopefully we can show you how to delete, modify a file from outside of windows. Okay, but will just give a quick refresher from before. Okay, so I write it windows folder okay System32 anything which it could be anything from icate with grid of a file or folder called test was the properties good security were gonna go advanced okay now. Some people say, hey, and administrator. I cannot delete it. Okay, yes, okay, now if administrators are not over here. Okay, or if it's owned by for example system and your an administrator and administrator is not over here similar thing. So what actually do. I'm gonna start off with from within windows and then go outside the windows so change account gonna make the owner as windows's Joe okay, it'll find it brilliant all good. Okay, replace the owner on this. Click okay, that's fine. Click okay just to make sure then reopening up and go to properties security advanced now as you can see the owners windows ninja but there is no windows ninja over here now. This could be one of the reasons why you are unable to delete, change, modify, okay, so all we need to do well in this click add, click select principle finder windows ninja. Okay, that's our username and give a valid question the past what do I type for principle. If your username okay if you don't know what your username is basically ecosystem okay, and click on settings, click on users accounts again, you'll find your username so that's okay, give it full control, click okay. Click okay. Click yes, that's fine. Close down there now you should be other deleted. You should be owed to modify if you are still unable to do all this after doing these two things where you're also the owner. You are also somewhere in here and you've given yourself full control okay. You may want to try disable inheritance and then add your user in again on here are Caldas try disable inheritance. Okay. Convert all into the this remove all inherited and as you can see all are left with is our windows ninja. Now click okay. Click yes, you write to close them down. You might need to restart your computer and hopefully all works. If it doesn't, and this is the part where many people have had trouble because it might be locked by a program that keeps restarting every time you restart the computer, it locks the file. It takes ownership of the file every time restarts, and is a never-ending story so very simply, what was done. We've got a your speed desk or USB thumb desk with gone to Google okay with, type in windows 10 ISO simple as that. It takes us to the Microsoft official site makes make sure you go there not some other website, click on their now that create the windows 10 installation media to what this does is it's going to download windows 10. The all windows 10 DVD ISO and its gonna install it to our USB disk. You can skip the minute getting a few things ready, so this is the steps that you are taking okay Rita the licence be sure you're okay with that. Click accept. It'll still take take take take.
