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Can anyone tell me where i can modify the name that appears when i open an office application...
This product is license to XXXXXXXX
Thanks for your help
by guruofdos
By default, installing MS Office caused the registration info to be read from the Windows Registry. The data comes from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOwner.
There may be a registration entry in the individual software application that can be changed but often this is not possible. Many apps register themselves to the registered owner of the machine at the time the software was installed.
If you have (legal) licences for the software, uninstall it, edit the RegisteredOwner key in the Windows Registry, then re-install the software.
The entry given in the previous post was for the Windows registration information. The office registration is placed into a 'dll' file. You will need to edit the file, or exchange it for another version.
Sorry, but I do not have the particular file name with me at this time.
Hope this helps.
by guruofdos
When installing Office, the installer reads the registry information from the Windows Registry to create the DLL file (in earlier versions of Office, it actually created an exe file)
Many apps, especially any that use the Windows Installer, use this method of registration. It is assumed that because the app normally has a single user licence, the licenced/registered owner of the computer itself will also by default be the registered owner of the software!
This is not always the case. Our company owns several machines, but some users install their own software which they have purchased independently and therefore licence this software in their own name. This is not always easy to do with apps that read Registry user information!
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