########################################################################################### #Take Ownership / Set Folder Permissions v1.0 #By Alan O'Brien #Line 8,11,13 + 14: Change the path to the folder that you want to take full control of #Line 9: Change to whatever account you want applied to the folder to take ownership of it #Final line will show if the permission applied correctly ########################################################################################### $ACL = Get-Acl -Path "C:\Users\XXX\XXX\Desktop" $User = New-Object System.Security.Principal.Ntaccount("BUILTIN\Administrators") $ACL.SetOwner($User) $ACL | Set-Acl -Path "C:\Users\XXX\XXX\Desktop" $ACL.SetAccessRuleProtection($true, $true) $ACL = Get-Acl -Path "C:\Users\XXX\XXX\Desktop" Get-ACL -Path "C:\Users\XXX\XXX\Desktop"