A freind of mine just acquired a computer from his sister who in turn bought a new Dell (i know, i know).

Now this may sound crazy, but he would like to change the name that was assigned to his windows installation... do you know what I am talking about?

(1) Right Click My Computer
(2) Properties
(3) Under the general tab it has a the name (and company) of the owner of the system

Well he wants to remove his sisters name (loser's name as he referred to it) and her fictitional company she put in and put his own name and fictitional company... i wonder about some peeps... but that is his request.

is there a way to do this via the registry or something?

Any help would be great. Tanx.

1) Click Start, Run
2) Type regedit, click OK
3) Click the + sign next to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows
4) Click CurrentVersion
5) Double-click Registered Owner in the right window
6) Type in the new name and click OK

or get x-setup... mother of ALL windows tweaking tools.... win 95 and up to xp

easy, no screwing directly with the registry, powerful tweaking tool... and of course... FREE!

http://www.tucows.com/system/preview/219636.html


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License: Free for non-commercial use

for companies... it is reasonably priced and a godsend to administrators

or go to regedit-edit-find- RegisteredOwner , capital R and O

thank you very much... i can just imagine what he will type in