re: Remove name on disks
Monday, January 7, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1084 messages posted)
Hi Jenny.
On Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:41 am, Jenny wrote:
|I'm preparing my mother's computer for the estate sale and I have wiped the drive,
|reformated and was getting ready to reinstalled 95. Her name is embedded on the
disks
Thats a bad description. If you reformat the drive then there is nothing on it so
you have to do a fresh install of Win95 and it will ask for a new user name.
|some how and it won't let me change it when reinstalling. It's like the keyboard
|is disabled when showing the user name. It gives me a message about being legal
to
|reinstall but I don't want her name to be on the computer or disks when they are
|sold. I found instuctions on how to change it in the registry after installation,
|but how do I remove it from the disks so they can be sold with the computer?
So you haven't formated you are just doing a reinstall. You are far better doing
a format and a fresh install. A reinstall causes for problems that it solves.
Remember for a fresh install you will need all your original drivers, sound card,
video card, printer, scannner etc
If you do decided on the easy option using your mothers name. Once Win95 is installed
if you Run: Regedit and do a search Ctrl+F for your mothers name. It will
be listed under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOwner
You just double click on RegisteredOwner and change the name to what ever you want
it to be. Then if you go back to your desktop and right-click on My Computer and
select Properties you will now see the new name listed.
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- Remove name on disks (Jenny: Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:41 am)
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