[AccessD] Windows can be so much fun

I meant to say "registered owner".


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 10/29/2011 8:38 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> I bought a laptop from a friend. The laptop was provided "Michael Laptop" as a "registered user"
> when it was turned on the first time (I suppose). I created my own user, deleted his etc but every
> time I want to install anything it says it will be registered to "Michael Laptop". I went looking
> through the registry for Michael Laptop and holy smoke batman, it is *everywhere*!!! Probably 50
> different registry keys, perhaps a hundred, mostly "install paths" pointing to a now non-existent
> user roaming directory.
>
> It is no damned wonder that the registry causes so many problems.
>
> I did find two specific places where there is a key called "registered user" which I changed to my
> name. We shall see if that makes me the registered user.
>