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Windows 2000 Reg Details How to Change Them?

  • 29-11-2002 10:51pm
    #1
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,846 ✭✭✭


    I have a Ghost Image made up of W2K, What I need to do is change the Registered to part, as I have different companies with the same spec PC'S, I have looked in the registery but I cant find its location. I know how to do this in Win98

    Does anyone know where the reg key is located??


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  • #2
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Run regedit

    Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion

    You'll have a key in the right pane for "Registered Owner" and "Registered Organisation"

    Just double-click on these to open, change and bob's your uncle


    (usual disclaimer about editing the registry: may be bad, may do bad things, may screw up your credit rating)

    (nice of you to bother going to the trouble btw - some people (like me:D) do get annoyed at finding out their real name is OEM Customer")


  • #3
    MarVeL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭MarVeL


    There are settings for this under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer

    Try doing a search in regedit (rather than regedt32) for the registered to name


  • #4
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,846 ✭✭✭tech


    Cheers lads,

    Now How do I setup an account to auto logon, is there Tweak 2K ??


  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    TweakUI (or pretty much any tweaking tool) would allow you to do that.

    The easiest way though is probably to go to the Users and Passwords applet in Control Panel.

    There's a tick box there - "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer". Untick that and it will ask you which account you want to be automatically logged on. Probably the simplest way (the option to log off and log on as someone else is still there when the nice administrator wants to fix the machine).


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