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by desynced

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Does anyone know how the name/company on the Office 2000 splash screen can be changed? We had a little problem with our employee's bringing in Office 2000 and installing it onto their system. I guess someone's husband brought it home from his job,and it does a "painless" install by itself. After working w/ Microsoft and now licensed for every system to have Office 2000 now, we uninstalled Office 2000 Pro from all the systems, and installed our licensed Office 2000 Premium. But now, when anyone starts an Office 2000 application, the splash screen still has the old user's name and company name instead of our's we put in during the installation. I went through the registy looking for the company name, changed all of the entries, but it still comes up as the "pirated" company's name. Anyone know how I can fix this without reimaging every PC?

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by gardbc

Try renaming the user.dat to like user1.dat. Depending on the version of windows, this should allow for it to rebuild. Remove office 2k from the PC first, and login as a user different than the one that you are renaming. Be sure to do all occurencesof the file. In the users profile as well as their roaming profile. When the pirate logs in again, it should rebuild the file without the bad name. Then reinstall office 2k.
The reason I say rename it is because if this does not fix the issue, it can be easily restored by renaming it back.

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