Change Your Windows XP Registration Information (XP Pro/Home)

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
by Diana Huggins

When you install Windows XP, you are required to provide registration information including your name and organization. This information is then visible on the General tab from the System Properties dialog box (right click My Computer and click Properties).

You can change the registration information after you install Windows XP by editing the registry.

Click Start and click Run.

Type regedit and click OK.

Expand the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

In the right pane, double click RegisteredOrganization.

Type in the new organization name and click OK.

Double click RegisteredOwner.

Type in the new name of the registered owner and click OK.

Close the Registry Editor.

15 Comments

Npx

March 31st, 2007
at 8:20pm

Nice job. Helpful tutorial

Koorosh

April 20th, 2007
at 2:02am

thanks

Louis R Diaz

September 21st, 2007
at 9:16pm

Thanks, for the tip.

omar

October 5th, 2007
at 11:26pm

Ur the Best

AdOr

October 19th, 2007
at 1:00am

Thank you for the tutorial. It helped me and I managed to change the registering information.

David

December 26th, 2007
at 5:19pm

Thankyou, very quick and helpful.

Sandy

January 19th, 2008
at 12:21pm

Very helpful. System support for my PC could not even tell me how to resolve this.

Kyos Kitsune

February 17th, 2008
at 8:25am

Thank you very much!! This was great information!

William Lewis

February 28th, 2008
at 8:11pm

Thank you so very much you made it so easy.

Elliott

March 3rd, 2008
at 10:04pm

How do you change/remove the picture in that properties box? I.E. the company brand that sold the computer.

Thanks
Elliott

jack

April 13th, 2008
at 11:41am

smart and cute … thanks

Ty Hurd

May 9th, 2008
at 3:02pm

Thanks for the help! just what i was looking for!

al

June 11th, 2008
at 6:32pm

Thankx diana id like to give you a big hug i just wanna know why i cant get rid of the name on a folder in documents & settings - previous owner data still there- i dont want to format c as i will lose all the win genuine reg key et.c the previous owner didnt give me the restore CD also on my sisters laptop its a bit unfair that after a serious virus had to format C again restore CD lost so win gen reg info lost - we tried to type in the XP key thats on the sticker on the bottom of laptop but it doesnt work:( anyone can advise if theres a solution to the problems ive mentioned? thanks

Yogeesh

August 13th, 2008
at 11:08pm

Thank you very much to guide me to change my registration information because while i install windows xp i didnt enter the personal information such as Name and organization now i am able to change it accouding to my requirement. This is an very use ful information. thank you once again

Rupesh

October 1st, 2008
at 4:19am

Thank u so so so much DIANA!
I m very happy n lucky to share this trick.
I ve installed xp sp3 n it runs cool on my dual core 1.6 ghz with a 1gb ram.The only problem was whenever i try to install a application or c windows properties it displayed that the computer is registered on ‘*’ .It looks very irritating .But now there is no limit of my happiness whenever i c my name in place of that vulgar ‘*’. Thank u once again diana hope u will keep helping the people like this only.

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