How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home wind

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Evergreen

Hi all,

I have recently purchased a new computer with Genuine Windows Vista Home
Premium installed. And the thing is that the guy that installed Vista, made 2
typos when entered my name in the "license to" box... I know it is not a big
deal, but I would like to know if there is a way to fix this...

Thanks all in advance.
 
Go to Start, type regedit, press Enter and navigate to registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion and in the
right pane, right-click RegisteredOwner and Modify the value. You can also
change the Registered Organization. Create a system restore point before
making the change.
 
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BurrWalnut said:
Go to Start, type regedit, press Enter and navigate to registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion and in the
right pane, right-click RegisteredOwner and Modify the value. You can also
change the Registered Organization. Create a system restore point before
making the change.

Thank you very much BurrWalnut... it worked fine!!
 
Hiya Shawn,

Thanks for the link (already added to Favourites... just in case)

Cheers.
 
Hi Shawn,

I am afraid that I still have a doubt regarding this issue: as you state in
the tutorial, the change in the registry editor "does not change the
C:\Users\(Your Username) folder name. The only way to do this is to either
create a new Administrator account and delete the old one or reinstall
Vista"... if I delete the current Adm. acc. in order to create a new one with
my name... will this affect to all the folders "under" the old name?... what
I mean is: if I delete the current Adm. account, all the documents, pics...
under this name will be lost for ever?

Sorry if this questions sounds stupid, but I would not like to loose all my
documents just becasue I am going to change the name of the user.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 

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