Don't worry about User.exe
Check this MS artical for details...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q88363

User.exe was only coded with name and company information back in the days of windows 
3.1 win 3.11 wfw 3.1 .

Written in serialno.ini  in wfw 3.11  

and in the registry ever scince then..   :-)







On Thursday, November 8, 2001 at 9:37 pm, The Doctor wrote:
>I have a comment about Change 
>the Registered User Information:

>
>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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