Hello

My computer has just come back from the doctors with a new Hard Drive. As a
result, the shop installed XP for me however it is registered to "owner". Can
I change it so that it is registered to "my name here". This is also a
newsance because the default username is "owner"


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"Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello
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> My computer has just come back from the doctors with a new Hard Drive. As
> a
> result, the shop installed XP for me however it is registered to "owner".
> Can
> I change it so that it is registered to "my name here". This is also a
> newsance because the default username is "owner"

You should create a new user account for yourself, and stop using the Owner
account. There's probably no old data on the new drive, so this is
straightforward, with no real migration. You can then delete the Owner
account, if you wish, once your account is functional.
If you do need to migrate data, this may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

As to changing the "registered to" name, this may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310441

HTH
-pk


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Tom <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>This is also a newsance because the default username is "owner"

You should stick with "owner" because it's obvious that your spelling
abilities ("newsance") are so limited that you will probably misspell
your own name.