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Re: How does a user change the computer's company name?

J Schewe — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:49:55 GMT

Yeah, I should have thought of that 2 months ago...

Anyways, here's what I've found:

All the programs I've tested changed their licensed company name when I changed the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization

But I also found registries like this, that look specific to certain products:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Automap\8.0\USA\RegCompany (Microsoft Streets and Trips 2001, specific to current user)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo\CompanyName (Microsoft Office 2008, specific to current user)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AutoMap\8.0\USA\RegCompany (Microsoft Streets and Trips 2001)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\.NETFramework\v2.0\Help\0x0409\{F848A463-F1BC-426e-ACF6-E5754B9D7E1D}\Registration\RegisteredOrganization (.Net Framework 2.0.50727)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Help\LanguageNeutral\{B9994D8D-0F32-40ba-8E6A-409C81B9EE62}\Registration\RegisteredOrganization (MSDN 8.0)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Help\LanguageNeutral\{221CD402-A57E-40D5-8341-46B37DB01B58}\Registration\RegisteredOrganization (Visual Studio 9.0)

However when I looked in these programs they didn't show anything about registered companies.

How does a user change the computer's company name?

J Schewe — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:12:09 GMT

I have gotten really annoyed by programs that I use always keep saying that I'm from the company Hewlett-Packard when really I just bought the computer from them... Is there someway to change what company the computer is used by?

Re: Re-Enabling Programs or Options that have been Disabled

J Schewe — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:34:03 GMT

Yeah, what does it mean if that tag isn't in the registry? (HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System \ DisableTaskMgr)

I expect that that would mean it's equal to zero (or off), so the taskmgr is not disabled?

Re-Enabling Programs or Options that have been Disabled

J Schewe — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:17:39 GMT

I've found that lots of things on vista can be disabled by the simple misclick of a button, or by a virus that got downloaded or some other reason and its so hard to re-enable it because Microsoft didn't make UIs for all those objects that can get disabled, because of this I will start a list of objects that have gotten disabled and possible ways to re-enable them as a reference for others that come here:

Hibernation - Can get disabled by using "Cleanup Wizard", "powercfg -H OFF".
to re-enable: run "powercfg -H ON" as administrator. (See Vista Hibernation - how to re-enable? for more info.)

Windows Firewall and Security Center - Can get disabled by using the "Services" control panel.
to re-enable: run the Services control panel, and select the service called "Windows Firewall" and or "Security Center", right click and press properties. Change the startup type from "Disabled" to whatever you want depending on when you want it to run. Manual if you want to start it on your own, Automatic if you want it to start right away when you start windows, or Automatic (Delayed Start) if you want it to run a couple minutes after you start windows. And of course I recommend Automatic.

Task Manager - Can get disabled by changing registers.
to re-enable: run c:\windows\regedit.exe and change the tag HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System \ DisableTaskMgr to the value of 0 or delete it altogether.(See How to enable / disable / change the Task Manager on Windows Vista for more info.)

Note that a virus can disable or enable anything that the user can disable and enable.

Answer To: I'm an admin, how come some programs say otherwise?

J Schewe — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:50:07 GMT

This question has appeared a little bit in this category and has never really been answered as a whole, just bits and peices of the answer have been said on these fourms, so I'll just run through what I've experienced:

1. I'm an admin, how come it says I don't have access to something, or a program says that you must be in an admin account when I try to run it?
Answer, because just being marked admin doesn't mean that your programs run with that kindof access like in XP.

2. So what benefits are there to being an admin?
Admins have the option of running programs and windows operations with full control (keep that in mind it is just an option), they still have to tell the computer when they want to exercise this ability of theirs. For safety reasons of course. For example: an admin right clicks on a program and clicks run as admininistrator, the computer will confirm that you want this to run as an admin (another security feature) and then it will run, but in a limited account the when you click run as..., it will popup a password prompt for one of the admins accounts, thats why being an admin is so special.

3. How do I know when a program is going to run as an admin?
      First of all, whenever Vista comes accross a program that has to run as an admin (or you marked to run that way) then a shield icon appears near the link to open the file, or if your viewing the program itself right embedded into the icon of the program. But this is not purely accurate in telling whether a progam is going to run as... Why? Because when a program owner creates their program they get to make their icon and can embedded this shield right into their icon. So the shield doesn't always mean that.
      So how can you tell? Another way to tell is when the program runs as an admin, the screen darkens (safety feature) and displays a message box that displays the program's name and credentials, you can then either click continue or close.
      Why is that in there? Again its a safety feature. If you can't run as an admin all the time, neither can viruses, that way when a virus trys to run as an admin the confirmation window appears and your like, "What? I didn't try running anything and cirtainly not as an admin," so you click close.

4. How do you mark a program as always run as admin?
The following works on programs and shortcuts to programs:
Right click on the file, click properties, click the tab called Compatibility, then select 'Run this program as an administrator'. If you want this to be applied to all users then click the button 'Show settings for all users' and select it there instead. That makes the program always run as an admin. (Note that setup programs automatically have this property even if the ckeckbox is not checked), after saving the setting and refreshing the window, you see that the program's icon is added with a shield. However in a limited account, if you click always run as admin, every time, at the startup or the program, the account asks for permisson from an admin.

Well thats all I can think of at the moment, if there is anymore related questions or if I got a little info wrong just post here.