Video: Change the registration information in Windows Vista and XP

There are a number of reasons you might want to change or update the registration information for your Windows system, but since it requires a registry edit, it can be kind of a pain. If you don’t like editing the Windows registry directly, there’s a nice little tool that will automate this task for you.

In this week’s TR Dojo episode, I show you how to change the registration information on your Windows system using TechRepublic’s Vista and XP Registration Changer tools. You can download the free tools from TechRepublic’s software directory:

• Registration Changer executable file
• Windows Vista Registration Changer tool

To use the Vista version of our tool, you’ll need to download and install the Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista from Microsoft. And just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you actually DO it, I’d like to know how common changing the registration information on Windows machines is with TechRepublic members.

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• Change the registration information in Windows Vista with this handy tool
• Change the registered owner of Windows XP the easy way

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