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by keith_bobbee

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Recently our infamous local telephone company implemented a new area code change for us. Shy of purchasing a thrid party piece of software... is there any way to edit the registry or another program (within Microsoft) to overlay the existing area code?

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by craig cecil

Both the Modems and the Telephony applets in Control Panel have area code fields in them that can be changed. However, doing a search through my registry (Win NT4) showed numerous entires that contained my area code (mostly product registration info), as well as many fields that just happened to have that number pattern. Unfortunately, the names of these fields varied (Phone, Telephone, Tel, etc). Also, some had my whole phone number in one value, while some had my area code split out. Run REGEDIT and do a search on your area code. Just be careful, and back it up before editing it!

by maxwell edison

You could do a search of the contents of literally all files, looking for the number, then inserting the new area code.

Maxwell

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