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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 11:39 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(32263 messages posted)
These are the instructions I followed to change the Registered owner to my name.
It's the only place it shows.
Go to RUN, type REGEDIT....click the plus marks in front of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS
and click the words Current Version.
Scroll to Registered Owner on the right hand side, then right click that line and
choose MODIFY....type in the new name and click OK. Close the Registry.
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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