Desktop Maintenance

If you buy a second hand computer with XP pre-installed (with all the correct licensing of course), you can change the "ownership" of the computer by editing the registry...

1. Click Start > Run
   
   
2. Type regedit in the Run entry field and click OK.
   
   
3. Navigate to:
   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
   
   
4. In the right panel, double click the RegisteredOwner field.
   Change the name to your name.
   
   
5. Click OK .
   
   
6. In the right panel, double click RegisteredOrganization
   
   
7. Change the name to Home, etc.
   You can also just leave this field blank.
   
   
8. Exit regedit and reboot the computer.