Why Does Windows Mis-Identify My Custom Built Computer in MyComputer Properties ?

[DarkStar]

Hello;
If you select MyComputer and right click it to get properties I find that Windows Xp Pro is misidentifying my machine. My machine
was custom built using various parts off the shelf by a private businessman yet Windows XP identifies my machine as a Gateway
Machine with no serial number. I have found the files responsible for this misidentifiucation and renamed them .old only to have
windows eventually recreate them with an update or whatever. I sure like windows to stop mis-identifying my computer as a gateway
and to id it as the custom machine it really is ???

Does Gateway use gigabyte motherboards ????

Any ideas people, are welcome.

 

[Stefan Z Camilleri]

Hello;
If you select MyComputer and right click it to get properties I find
that Windows Xp Pro is misidentifying my machine. My machine was custom
built using various parts off the shelf by a private businessman yet
Windows XP identifies my machine as a Gateway Machine with no serial
number. I have found the files responsible for this misidentifiucation
and renamed them .old only to have windows eventually recreate them with
an update or whatever. I sure like windows to stop mis-identifying my
computer as a gateway and to id it as the custom machine it really is ???

Does Gateway use gigabyte motherboards ????

Any ideas people, are welcome.

By 'mis-identifying' i am guessing that you mean that the gateway logo
appears in properties.

This is not done natively by windows, it only means that the verson of xp
installed on your machine once belonged to a gateway pc. That is done by
modifying the actual install cd.

 

[Zilbandy]

By 'mis-identifying' i am guessing that you mean that the gateway logo
appears in properties.

This is not done natively by windows, it only means that the verson of xp
installed on your machine once belonged to a gateway pc. That is done by
modifying the actual install cd.

And this probably means that his version of Windows is not a legal
copy. I'd be talking to the guy that sold me that system, if I was
him. :/

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hello;
If you select MyComputer and right click it to get properties I find
that Windows Xp Pro is misidentifying my machine. My machine was custom
built using various parts off the shelf by a private businessman yet
Windows XP identifies my machine as a Gateway Machine with no serial
number. I have found the files responsible for this misidentifiucation
and renamed them .old only to have windows eventually recreate them with
an update or whatever. I sure like windows to stop mis-identifying my
computer as a gateway and to id it as the custom machine it really is ???

Does Gateway use gigabyte motherboards ????

Any ideas people, are welcome.

Are you using a Gateway OEM license for WinXP on a non-Gateway machine?


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[Stefan Z Camilleri]

And this probably means that his version of Windows is not a legal
copy. I'd be talking to the guy that sold me that system, if I was
him. :/

Not necessarily... if he can update windows properly then it might mean
that the licence was purchased without a cd... in which case though, I
hope he has a legal licence.

If not there is a microsoft programme in which he can get a highly
discounted copy of windows + licence or even get it free under certain
circumstances

 

[DarkStar]

I purchased a CD from the builder Diamondback Computers
that came with this machine and was originally
installed by them.
The machine did not originally call itself a Gateway Machine
that seemed to happen only in the last
year or more. I got rid of the Gateway Logo but
it came back again after updating windows.

I think MS is doing this and not my OS.

I have had to repeatedly reactivate windows
everytime I play with the hardware or whatever
and it is a real pain when it happens and
I am not connected to the network because you got
to call in and manipulate a lot of complicated
long numbers.

I guess i will just keep renaming the Gateway files
OLD or whatever to keep my machine properly
saying what it is which is gigabyte.

The COA says nothing about gateway
I think that the updater is looking at my machine
and for some strange reason needs to call it
something so it calls it a Gateway machine.

I find it all irritating since I am just a small one person home user
and own all the equipment and stuff on it.

It is interesting to note that no one seems to care
about the anomalies except for myself and everything
works fine even after I get rid of those
bad ID files in Sytem32 area.

There are several of them.
They are not system files.
I can do what i want with them.