Change who SP "registered" to?

[Guest Tom]

Hello

 

My computer has just come back from the doctors with a new Hard Drive. As a

result, the shop installed XP for me however it is registered to "owner". Can

I change it so that it is registered to "my name here". This is also a

newsance because the default username is "owner"

 

 

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Cheers

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: Change who SP "registered" to?

 

"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hello

>

> My computer has just come back from the doctors with a new Hard Drive. As

> a

> result, the shop installed XP for me however it is registered to "owner".

> Can

> I change it so that it is registered to "my name here". This is also a

> newsance because the default username is "owner"

 

You should create a new user account for yourself, and stop using the Owner

account. There's probably no old data on the new drive, so this is

straightforward, with no real migration. You can then delete the Owner

account, if you wish, once your account is functional.

If you do need to migrate data, this may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

 

As to changing the "registered to" name, this may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310441

 

HTH

-pk

 

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[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

Re: Change who SP "registered" to?

 

Tom <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>This is also a newsance because the default username is "owner"

 

You should stick with "owner" because it's obvious that your spelling

abilities ("newsance") are so limited that you will probably misspell

your own name.