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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:33 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by The Doctor
(6 messages posted)
Steve, this is a tad late cos the email notifier didn't work, but this might still
help..
Basically, there are other things about a system that are encoded into USER.EXE,
like the volume serial number for the partition, as well as the registered name and
the keycode. It might swap the user ID if you swap USER.EXE. but I don't know how
much is encoded there, or how much it might affect a system that is transferred rather
than freshly installed.
You'd also have to edit things in the Registry to match those in USER.EXE.
If you are going to transfer between machines with different BIOS, mainboard, chipset
or other major hardware variations, it is ALWAYS better to reinstall anyway. The
only thing I ever found to be really useful was to keep a volume serial number, hence
my detail in the first post, about Ghosting an uncompressed copy of a formatted primary
and editing that number before copying it back to the drive. If you have a sector
editor, you could do that direct to the disk anyway, and then install. Only reason
I used Ghost is:
1. you can save the empty primary image as a file of only 6KB or so, and that might
be useful to restore a partition table if you lose it due to virus or disk write
failure. The data will not appear in the drive, but at least it's made easy for data
recovery tools to reach.
2. it allows you to use a Windows sector or hex editor if you have one, on the file,
otherwise you'd have to use a command line tool, which is rarely easy.
On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 6:26 am, Steve Easton wrote:
>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.??
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