Comments on: Quick Tip: Change the Registered Owner in Windows

By: YP

YP — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:10:48 +0000

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!

By: ray

ray — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:53:46 +0000

it wont work on my vista it says default value name please help

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:06:56 +0000

Helpful for anyone who “repurposes” computers to others in the family (my wife inherits mine, hers goes to the oldest, etc.).

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:13:43 +0000

Indeed, not useless at all! I bought a nice brand new laptop off a guy who’d just been laid off and needed rent money… so this helped me!!!

By: Mina

Mina — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:05:29 +0000

Hi, I just put my PC up for sale and thanks I was hoping to wipe it clean before I sold it. I didn’t want my name on there. I just put “Owner” and a set of instructions on how to put on their name. Thank You so much. Also I just wanted to know since my new computer isn’t PC if I can do the same thing to my Macbook. I also bought it used and was wondering if I could change my name without taking it in the the Apple store?
Thanks Again

By: ss

ss — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:50:34 +0000

thankx a lot mathew, it helped me a lot. but i am encountering one more problem, my laptop still shows 2 owner names, one in capital letters and other in small letters….wat should i do?

By: chastin

chastin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:56:38 +0000

I used this tip to change the values in XP and it worked.

By: Tap3w0rm

Tap3w0rm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:43:16 +0000

I wrote a program to change the registry entries so you don’t have to muck about in the registry. Works for Windows XP and VISTA. However with windows vista you must right click on the program and select ‘Run as Administrator’ or the program won’t have sufficient access to the registry.
http://www.datpdx.com/download.php?view.1

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:08:47 +0000

THANKS MATTHEW,
I’m about to restart my computer and see if that worked!!! I’ve been working of trying to change this for a few months now.

By: Colm

Colm — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:08:40 +0000

Been trying to change this for 5 years. I really should have done a Google search sooner! Great tip, thanks.