If the reason is to avoid reboots, Windows 8 is better about this and all versions of Windows allow you to avoid that annoying reboot with
a single registry hack.
Not exact matches
And in the case of this particular
registry hack, that would work just fine because there is only a
single value on the right — but most of the time, you're going to need to edit the file.
Turns out you can disable all the extra keys at once with a
single registry entry, which I've provided as a downloadable
registry hack.
Here's a
registry hack that adds an item to the menu that will let you take ownership of the files in a
single step, so you can delete, move, or otherwise modify the file.