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timber715   12-07-2006 at 09:16:30 PM

my girlfriend recently bought a laptop secondhand, she got all documentations and recovery cd, but win xp is registered to the previous owner. would it be possible to change the registered name in the os???
also, is is possible to configure the language bar no to appear during start up?
thank you for taking time to read, hope you can reply and help...

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Grumpy9117   12-07-2006 at 11:29:52 PM
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There's even a program that will do it for you.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_change_owner.htm

Grumpy

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timber715   12-08-2006 at 07:58:57 AM
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Wow, Thank you for the info, Grumpy... that really helps. i'm sure she'll be very happy to hear that. i hope i can make it happen. Thanks again... good day

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fattony   12-09-2006 at 05:32:09 AM
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i belive if you close the language bar it'll ask you if you want it to startup next time and you check the box and say no it won't come up again...something like that, just try closing it

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Zoron   12-13-2006 at 06:42:52 PM
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If you go to Regional Options in the Control Panel and remove anything extra that's not needed (for example if you have a US Keyboard and there are other keyboard options installed); the language bar will go away. I have mine set for Canada (English) and US Keyboard. By default when I choose Canada, it installs the billigual keyboard as well (for French characters)... I remove this and the language bar goes away.

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