Misspelled Registration Name

[Avery]

My new notebook came in and someone at corporate wanted
to do me a "favor" and configure the thing for me. I have
spent the morning fixing everything else and I have just
found the misspelled name (shown under registered to). It
is not shonw in User accounts. The name in User accounts
is spelled correctly. It is when I launch a command line
environment that the misspelled name pops up. It is
irritating but not a real problem. Any ideas on how to
fix? I am guessing it is a Registry problem/fix.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

See if the following helps for changing the registered owner:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_change_owner.htm

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| My new notebook came in and someone at corporate wanted
| to do me a "favor" and configure the thing for me. I have
| spent the morning fixing everything else and I have just
| found the misspelled name (shown under registered to). It
| is not shonw in User accounts. The name in User accounts
| is spelled correctly. It is when I launch a command line
| environment that the misspelled name pops up. It is
| irritating but not a real problem. Any ideas on how to
| fix? I am guessing it is a Registry problem/fix.

 

[Guest]

http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/chgownorg.htm
has a good little script that will allow you to change the name.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

To fix the "Registered to" information for WinNT/2K/XP, you can
use Start > Run > Regedit.exe to edit:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\RegisteredOwner

and:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current
Version\RegisteredOrganization



Bruce Chambers
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