Security: Unable to display current owner

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Published on 2009-05-18T07:18:29Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 17:03 UTC
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I have a user with local administrative rights on their Windows 7 64-bit box. They extracted a file from a zip file they downloaded with the Zip shell extension to their desktop on a non-encrypted or compressed NTFS volume.

Unfortunately they cannot open it. I tried to take ownership of it and it just reports "Access is Denied" and for the current owner it reports "Unable to display current owner."

At this point the file cannot be deleted, executed or modified. I have actually seen this exact same happen in Vista before, but I can't for the life of me remember how to fix it.

Any ideas how it happened or how to fix it? I'd be happy just to delete it without a format at this point.

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