sispro Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 i have sold a laptop and want to change the owner name without reformatting the drive is there a way to do this so when something is done my name don't show it will show theres instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbm Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 i have sold a laptop and want to change the owner name without reformatting the drive is there a way to do this so when something is done my name don't show it will show theres insteadJust run regedit and search for the value "RegisteredOwner" and edit each occurance to what you wantwhat you want. Probasbly find it in 2 or 3 places. Changing the user name, if you need to could be aproblem. It could be stored in hundred of places in the registery and regedit only lets you change them one at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myselfidem Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 (edited) You can make those changes inside: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]"DefaultUserName"="New Name"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]"RegisteredOrganization"="""RegisteredOwner"="New Name"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\LanmanServer\Parameters]"srvcomment"="New comment"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\LanmanServer\Parameters]"srvcomment"="New comment"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Parameters]"srvcomment"="New comment"Look also for Microsoft Office products inside the registry. For Computer Name: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName]@="mnmsrvc""ComputerName"="NAME-PC"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ActiveComputerName]"ComputerName"="NAME-PC" Edited March 28, 2011 by myselfidem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sispro Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 i was going to restore it but can't cause it has a cracked LCD screen have it hook to a monitor but that won't show anything till it loads up so i can't reformat it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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