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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Friday, November 9, 2001 at 6:26 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Easton
(5183 messages posted)
Ok Doc. Since I have two identical machines with W95, you're saying if I swap the
user.exe between the machines I'll also swap the identities.??
On Thursday, November 8, 2001 at 9:37 pm, The Doctor wrote:
>I have a comment about Change
>the Registered User Information:
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>It is not enough!
>The registered user's info is stamped liberally throught USER.EXE as well. Also,
>the volume serial number of the primary drive is also stamped into this file. There
>may be others altered at install time too. This is in Windows 95, and I guess later
>systems may have even more pervasive ways of placing the identity registered at
install
>time throughout the OS.
>If you did want to set up as a new user, with new details, it is easier to start
>a reinstall than to root out all past ID references, though a small Ghost image
file
>(Symantec/Norton Ghost) of an empty primary can be hexed to give a serial number
>you want. (Must be an uncompressed file). This can be useful if you want to transfer
>a program that has a license locked to a particular number. Once that is ghosted
>in, replacing a format, it is possible to install onto that, setting up a completely
>clean ID that uses the old serial number. Mostly pointless info, but just to show
>you that there is a lot more to think about than that article suggests. :)
>
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