Windows2000 re-registration

[Richard]

Hello,

Does anybody know how to change the registered to name
under Control Panel-System? I have accidentally
registered a computer to the wrong company name and I do
not want to reinstall all the applications again.

Thanks.

Richard

 

[Ray at]

While this won't render anything useless having the wrong name, it can be a
perfectionist's annoyance. This information is stored in the registry.
Note that changing this will only change what is displayed in the "my
computer" info. It will not change any settings in any applications. (I
suppose it's possible that some applications would display the Windows info
instead of its own stored info, but that is not the norm.) When you install
an application and it asks you for your name and company, it prefills with
the values that you put in while installing your OS, but it is not tied to
that same data source in the registry. You'd have to change each
application on its own, if you want them changed as well. Where this
information is stored would totally depend on the application.

But, anyway, the info for the OS is stored in the registry at:


HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
RegisteredOwneer (REG_SZ)
RegisteredOrganization (REG_SZ)

Ray at home

 

[Dave Patrick]

Cross-post when necessary, but never multi-post. Cross-posting is when you
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you cross-post the reply) in which the response was made. So those that
frequent these groups then need to deal with or re-read the posts. It may
seem like a small thing to keep track of. But some of us actively traverse
50 or more groups. The poster also then must search out all of the posts to
see if there was a response.

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:
| Hello,
|
| Does anybody know how to change the registered to name
| under Control Panel-System? I have accidentally
| registered a computer to the wrong company name and I do
| not want to reinstall all the applications again.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Richard
|

 

[Richard]

David,

Sorry about that. Believe it or not, it is the first
time I've used a Newsgroup. How 1980's of me.

Thanks for the help.

Richard