Re: Windows registered name incorrect

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:40:53 -0700

***;
The easiest way to change it under Documents and Settings is to create a new
profile and copy the data from old to new profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
The old profile can be safely deleted from User Accounts once you are sure
all is OK in the new profile. 

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Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"*** Ballard" <ballardr@att.net> wrote in message 
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> OK, I got the Registered To: Name entry changed under My
> Computer/Properties/General tab, but the original erroneous name entry
> appears all over the machine. It shows up in all of the Documents and
> Settings paths and therefore is part of every programs data path.
>
> If I search on that bad entry in the registry, it is all over the
> place, usually as part of a Documents and Settings path. There must be
> 50 or more such entries. It even shows up as User Name entries in the
> registry even though I never used that as a user name. I suppose I
> might be able to change them all (is there a search/replace function
> in Regedit?), but what does that do to all the applications that use
> the data path with the phony entry? Will they be suitably notified of
> the path change by the new registry entries?
>
> This all resulted from a single flubbed key stroke at first turn on,
> and now there seems to be no way to recover without major pain.
>
> *** Ballard
> ballardr@att.net
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:48:21 -0700, "Jupiter Jones  [MVP]"
> <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote:
>
>>***;
>>Go here:
>>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
>>Line 7 right column "Change Registered Owner..."
>
> Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "*** Ballard" <ballardr@att.net> wrote in message
> news:t5s8u09172cb321c72tlqv12c3hvairp4t@4ax.com...
>> Brand new laptop with Windows XP Home. On first start up I goofed
>> while entering my name. Now under My Computer/Properties it has the
>> mis typed name for the Registered To: entry. How do I change this? It
>> is not the user name or the administrator or the computer name.
>>
>> *** Ballard
>> ballardr@att.net
>
>
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