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| How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home wind 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. -- Toy-like people make me boy-like |
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| RE: How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home wind 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. "Evergreen" wrote: [color=blue] > 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. > -- > Toy-like people make me boy-like[/color] |
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| RE: How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home -- Toy-like people make me boy-like "BurrWalnut" wrote: [color=blue] > 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. > > "Evergreen" wrote: >[color=green] > > 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. > > -- > > Toy-like people make me boy-like[/color][/color] Thank you very much BurrWalnut... it worked fine!! |
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| Re: How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home Hiya Shawn, Thanks for the link (already added to Favourites... just in case) Cheers. -- Toy-like people make me boy-like "brink" wrote: [color=blue] > > Evergreen;524286 Wrote:[color=green] > > 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. > > -- > > Toy-like people make me boy-like[/color] > > Hi Evergreen, > > In addition to BurrWalnut's solution, this tutorial will show you how > to do that solution with screenshots and more details if needed. > > [url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/74737-registered-owner-organization.html[/url] > > Shawn > > > -- > brink > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* > [url]WWW.VISTAX64.COM[/url] (\"HTTP://WWW.VISTAX64.COM\") > *Please post feedback to help others.* >[/color] |
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| Re: How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home 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. -- Toy-like people make me boy-like "brink" wrote: [color=blue] > > Evergreen;524466 Wrote:[color=green] > > Hiya Shawn, > > > > Thanks for the link (already added to Favourites... just in case) > > > > Cheers. > > > > -- > > Toy-like people make me boy-like > > ------------------------------------- > > "brink" wrote:[color=darkred] > > > Hi Evergreen, > > > > > > In addition to BurrWalnut's solution, this tutorial will show you how > > > to do that solution with screenshots and more details if needed. > > > > > > 'Registered Owner and Organization'[/color] > > ([url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/74737-registered-owner-organization.html[/url])[color=darkred] > > > > > > Shawn[/color] > >[/color] > > Your welcome Evergreen, > > Just glad you resolved your problem. > > Shawn > > > -- > brink > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* > [url]WWW.VISTAX64.COM[/url] (\"HTTP://WWW.VISTAX64.COM\") > *Please post feedback to help others.* >[/color] |
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| Re: How to change the "license to" name on the "About" Vista Home Again, Shawn, thank you very much for your help!! -- Toy-like people make me boy-like "brink" wrote: [color=blue] > > Evergreen;527120 Wrote:[color=green] > > 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. > > > > > > -- > > Toy-like people make me boy-like > >[/color] > > Evergreen, > > I do not blame you for being concerned about that. > > You will need to create the new Administrator account first, then > delete the old one from within the new one. Towards the end of deleting > the old Administrator account, in User Accounts in the Control Panel, > you will be given the option to save all the contents of these files to > a folder on the desktop of the account (New one) you are deleting it > from. This tutorial will walk you through the process. See frame 6 and > 7. > > [url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93026-user-account-delete.html[/url] > > Shawn > > > -- > brink > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* > [url]WWW.VISTAX64.COM[/url] (\"HTTP://WWW.VISTAX64.COM\") > *Please post feedback to help others.* >[/color] |
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