Re: editing XP's Registrant Information

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:47:37 -0600

Greetings --

    To protect your personal information and data from any future
users of average skills, you should, at the very least, format the
hard drive and reinstall only the OS and those applications whose
licenses you are selling along with the computer. If you wish to do a
more thorough job of protecting your personal data, WipeDrive 2.2.1
(http://www.accessdata.com/Product07_Overview.htm?ProductNum=07) meets
U.S. DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard
drives, and should be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS
and applications.

    When you reinstall the OS you can use a generic name, such as
"Owner."

Bruce Chambers 

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"bumborass" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2B333A81-13C7-4437-BC5E-36074ACB0B35@microsoft.com...
> Hi how are you all? I have recently sold my laptop on ebay. I want 
> to delete my XP windows registration information. So that the new 
> owner can enter his information. I do not want the new owner to have 
> access to my personal information. Could someone plz inform me of 
> how to do so. Thank you have a good day!

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