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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Thursday, April 8, 2004 at 12:59 pm
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Posted by Lucy (2 messages posted)


My brother just managed to do this for me control pannel>change user accounts>change account Worked for me! my new pc now says my name instead of the former owners (my brothers!) HTH and was what you are getting at! Lisax


On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 7:07 pm, Richard Earl wrote:
>
>I have a question about Change
>the Registered User Information
:


>
>Not a question, really. Just a comment. It didn't work for me!
>
>I followed the instructions for Win 95/98/Me to the keystroke. Guess what? Nowhere
>in my registry is there "RegisteredOrganization" or "RegisteredOwner" or "ProductID."
>
>I searched for the name that my system is using and found about 10 instances of it.
>I changed the name wherever I found it in the registry, but the old name still shows
>up whenever a program needs it.
>
>I guess that, in a nutshell, is about the most frustrating thing about home computing
>for me. Whenever I'm knee-deep in an electronic minefield, the map in my hands cannot
>be relied upon to be correct.
>
>I'm sure glad my physician and surgeon don't have the same shoddy attitude towards
>detail as the writers of software handbooks do! I nearly lose my mind with anger
>when, after spending three days following the directions, I finally get to some snotty
>kid in "technical support" who laughs when he says..."Oh, ya... the manual's wrong
>there."
>
>Doesn't ANYBODY in this business take responsibility for ANYTHING? The hardware isn't
>guaranteed. The software isn't guaranteed. The information isn't guaranteed to be
>correct. About the ONLY thing that's guaranteed is that whatever we buy, however
>much we pay, we are guaranteed to get screwed sooner or later.
>
>


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Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Richard Earl: Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 7:07 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Richard Earl: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 7:07 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Ron: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 7:41 pm)
-re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (jabuck: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 12:15 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Richard Earl: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 5:47 pm)
-re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Paul: Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 4:28 am)
*re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (jabuck: Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 2:11 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information' (Lucy: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 12:59 pm)
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