Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!sdsu!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products Message-ID: <21199@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 18 Aug 89 04:26:40 GMT References: <15075@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Lines: 25 thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes: >...What if you make a mistake when you are typing >in the name with which you register the program? ... >...And this is exactly what happened to a woman who came in to our area today >wanting us to change her screwed up name. >How do you do this? I can use FEdit or MacSnoop to find the name, but how >is it formatted? Does anyone know? It doesn't work if you just change the >letters. I guess it's missing some delimiter, but I don't know what it wants. >Someone must have done this before...I'm sure it must happen all the time. The remedy is extremely simple, provided you have a legal copy along with the distribution diskettes as supplied by Microsoft. Make a new copy of the software from the original diskettes. If she has "installed" her name on the original diskettes, shame on whoever is supporting this person for not properly educating her on the importance of maintaining pristine original disks! --scott -- Scott Truesdell