Covert %username% to hex in logon script

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From: Art Vandelay (idozaf_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:06:18 -0000

Hi there,
   At a school we need to alter the registered User Information for the
Office suite during logon. We want the %username% value to be imported into
the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\common\UserInfo altering
the REG_BINARY UserName

Unfortunately the conversion isn't straight hex either, but as with all
REG_BINARYs there is a 00 between every character. So for example the word
"Example" is not imported as
45 78 61 6D 70 6C 65

but as:

45 00 78 00 61 00 6D 00 70 00 6C 00 65 00 00 00

Any idea how we can go about doing this?
Thanks.
Art

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