Seller installed XP Home using my name

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Change the Computer's Registered Owner in Windows XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_change_owner.htm

Microsoft Registration: Start > Run and type: REGWIZ /R ,
and hit enter.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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"Jouni" wrote:

> I bought a used PC. A kind person who sold me the PC installed XP Home to it
> using my name "automatically". The problem is that there shouldn't be my
> name, the computer comes to a friend of mine. I just bought the cheap PC via
> an internet auction.
>
> So, possibly during installation XP asks the owner's name (I still use Win
> 98, I don't know). Is it possible to rename the XP owner's name afterwards?
> I don't have any installation disks, just some sort of an XP recovery disk.
>
> with regards
>
> Jouni
> from Finland