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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:15 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by The Doctor
(6 messages posted)
Ty Steve. That's new to me. Mine definitely has the ID as well, immediately after
the strings "If you purchased Windows on floppy disks, click About on the Help menu.
" and "0rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl ,-". (minus quotes). As it
seems the thing is recompiled live, I thought it best to assume other things vital
to the current system might also be compiled in it, so I suggested starting with
the clean, renumbered partition as a way to avoid upsetting that. It's especially
interesting that one of M$'s own would replace a compiled USER.EXE with what seems
to be a generic file. Thankyou. That is a good clue, and a good way to retain anonymity
if it works in all cases. :)
Another note: If as well as assigning the path to the swap file to be on another
drive, this USER.EXE need not be rewritten, and if all INI files and the two Registry
files could all be set up for storage on another partition, it might even be possible
to coax W95 to boot off read-only media, which is something a LOT of people would
like in specialist cases in older PC's with dedicated functions like MP3 player,
household control unit, etc.. You could have all the main OS files on a CD, possibly
even the INI files and Registry files, with an HD for swap file and nothing else
(except another partition for stored data..), if it doesn't mind not being able to
write to itself. I've not tried this, but it would be cool if it worked, turning
a small 486 into dedicated hardware for whatever function was on the disk you start
it with.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 11:44 am, Steve Easton wrote:
>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.
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