Guest elmarsa dice Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 MPWxpG readers, My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help is appreciated in advance.
Guest DrewClayton Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Name misspelled On Jun 9, 2:23 pm, elmarsa dice <thewalruss...@lycos.com> wrote: > MPWxpG readers, > My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. > The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always > comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way > to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help > is appreciated in advance. Yes. The method depends on which version of Office you are running. http://www.google.com/search?q=change+ms+office+name
Guest Nepatsfan Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Name misspelled "elmarsa dice" <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote in message news:te0r445uk3ndvichttb07766tll364sf2b@4ax.com... > MPWxpG readers, > My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. > The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always > comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way > to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help > is appreciated in advance. You need to change the registered owner. Here's a web site where you can download a program that will help with this problem. Courtesy of Doug Knox, MS-MVP Change the Registered Owner/Organization in Windows XP http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_change_owner.htm If you prefer to do this manually, go to Start -> Run and enter regedit.exe in the Open box. In the Registry Editor, navigate to this registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion In the right hand pane, right click on RegisteredOwner and select Modify from the menu. Change the entry under Value data to the correct name. Click OK. Close the Registry Editor. You may have to restart your computer to see a change in About Windows. For your Office programs, I think you'll have to look for an option within the programs to change the user name. Good luck Nepatsfan
Guest 3c273 Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Name misspelled Run regedit and search for the misspelling and change it. Louis "elmarsa dice" <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote in message news:te0r445uk3ndvichttb07766tll364sf2b@4ax.com... > MPWxpG readers, > My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. > The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always > comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way > to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help > is appreciated in advance.
Guest Xandros Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Name misspelled To change the name use the tool here and reboot http://www.dougknox.com:80/xp/utils/xp_change_owner.htm To change the name in Office 2007 open Ms Word and click the Office Button->Word options button->Popular section To change the name in earlier version of Office open Ms Word and select Tools->Options->User Information Tab -- Xandros "elmarsa dice" <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote in message news:te0r445uk3ndvichttb07766tll364sf2b@4ax.com... > MPWxpG readers, > My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. > The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always > comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way > to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help > is appreciated in advance.
Guest elmarsa dice Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Re: Name misspelled On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:23:13 -0700, elmarsa dice <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote: >MPWxpG readers, >My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. >The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always >comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way >to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help >is appreciated in advance. Thanks to all that responded. When Nepatsfan identified where in the registry the name was hidden, I changed it and wallah!!!! it was corrected. Thanks again for your help. This newsgroup is indispensible.
Guest Nepatsfan Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Re: Name misspelled "elmarsa dice" <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote in message news:qjvt44ppevhva3c46g8e378bhkgdlp0l4k@4ax.com... > > > On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:23:13 -0700, elmarsa dice > <thewalrussaid@lycos.com> wrote: > >>MPWxpG readers, >>My windows XP has a minor annoyance to me that I would like to remove. >>The name on the end user license aggreement is misspelled and always >>comes up on the signature on word and other documents. Is there a way >>to correct the spelling in the registry or some other way. Any help >>is appreciated in advance. > > Thanks to all that responded. When Nepatsfan identified where in the > registry the name was hidden, I changed it and wallah!!!! it was > corrected. Thanks again for your help. This newsgroup is > indispensible. You're welcome. Thanks for taking the time to let us know you were able to fix the problem. Nepatsfan
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