From: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 14:46:39 -0700
Dired chown command complains that chown is not available for windows
systems. However, windows versions >= 7 (at least) have the "takeown"
command, which while not as comprehensive as the unix chown command at
least allows the current user to take ownership of a file/dir, as long
as the user has admin privileges. It would be useful for dired to
permit this possibility on windows systems.
AFAIU, 'takeown' is different from 'chown', in that it only allows to
change the file's owner to either the current user or the
Administrators group, it doesn't allow you to change the ownership to
any other user except one of those two. Also, I think the command
requires elevation, doesn't it (thus you mention "admin privileges")?
So I'm not sure that command is a good replacement for 'chown', but
maybe you have something in mind I'm missing?