Just a quick 1

easyshare123

easyshare123

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Picked up a cheap dell laptop today but its registered to a 'joan davis' is there anyway that i can change that too my name?
 
you can perform various registry tweaks to change this information. Although if your not comfortable in the registry, then its not the best way to go. (incidentally, the tree is HKEY_LocalMachine > Software > Microsoft)

Download a copy of TweakUI, or TweakXP, and you can do it from within the software.

Whilst theres no need to reinstall Windows, it might be a good idea to do so if you've purchased a second hand laptop anyway (although quite frankly why anyone would want to buy a second hand piece of IT hardware is beyond me)

:-)

Hope that helps
 
'although quite frankly why anyone would want to buy a second hand piece of IT hardware is beyond me'

I brought it because it was cheap.
Thanks i intalled xp again. Media edition and its brilliant

DAN
 
When buying second hand PCs' or laptops or whatever, it is usually a good idea to reformat it anyway, you dont wanna be running all the crap the person before you had installed (unless you want to ofc :P).
 
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