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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 11:44 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Easton
(5183 messages posted)
Hi Doc. You piqued my curiosity so I checked my usere exe files. I have 2 since
a program I installed contained Microsoft Active Accessibility which replaced my
user.exe with a newer version and placed the old one in a backup folder. The old
one does contain user and organization info but the new one does not!!! Neither
contained the product ID.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:33 am, The Doctor wrote:
>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.
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>
>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.
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