Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Thursday, November 8, 2001 at 9:37 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by The Doctor
(6 messages posted)
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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