Windows file ownership problem

Chetan1991

Youngling
Hey everyone. I have some very old files on my laptop. In the last few years I've had to reinstall Windows at least once a year, because it gradually becomes slow and unresponsive. Perhaps as a result of that, the ownership information of those files is inconsistent, with some having a long alphanumeric string as owner.

The problem is that Windows won't let me open the files or change ownership even though my account is the administrator.

Is there a way to change the ownership of all the files in a folder to administrators, given the default windows properties dialogue box isn't doing that?
 
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