How do I remove previous user's name from Win 98se?

[Tauren]

My fiancee's Gateway was registered to her ex and it keeps saying logged on as her ex.


[edit]I removed the password files already[/edit]

 

[YankeesWin]

good question, I just bought a win98se COA from someone, I'll probably need to remove a username too. somebody help us BOTH out!!

 

[RobSan]

Use Regedit, go to LOCAL MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version and edit the Registered Owner & Organization.

 

[Logan5]

Tauren, does Windows prompt you to logon at startup? If not then I suspect that auto logon may have been enabled. Look in Control Panel for the TweakUI applet.

 

[Tauren]

<<Tauren, does Windows prompt you to logon at startup? If not then I suspect that auto logon may have been enabled. Look in Control Panel for the TweakUI applet.>>


No, he's too much of a boob to even know what a GUI is, let alone Tweakui. It's the registered user's name that needs to go.

And thanks RobSan!

 

[SaigonK]

If you get a logon prompt with his name in it go delete the *.pwl files form c:\windows and this will go away.
If you need to edit the registered user name, just do a search for his name as Windows sees it and replace each instance with yours.
I am sure there is more than just the Registered user's name with his data in it.