Need a lil bit of help. I bought a cheapy computer and collected it yesterday, all is well im using it now! lol but all my pictures ect when i send are coming up in the previous owners name

How do i make everything go into my name? he said he wiped it clean but obvously not!

CheeRS

 

best way is to format the harddrive and reinstall windows

 

waaaay over my head mate lol

im not to sharp with computers as you can tell, how would i do that?

 

 

What exactly do you mean when you say "pictures I send are coming up in his name" ???

I'm guessing here that you mean the computer operating system is still set up with his name. If so this should be fairly easy. and I can show you how;

1) Click START on the tool bar and click on the picture at the top next to the name;



Then, you might get this screen;



If you do, just click the CANCEL button and you should see this screen;


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Then click the CHANGE NAME (first option) and you should get this;



All you need to do is put your name in and you should be sorted

 

Cheers fella ive done that bit but its the name of who its registered to that buggin me as my names not 'abdul bawab' lmao

 

Click Start Run, type regedit and click OK.

Click down through all the folders till you get to this location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

There is an entry on the right hand side called RegisteredOwner. Double click it an put your name in. Click OK and close the registry editor. Now if you check the owner information, it should have your name there.

Cheers

Matt

 

Cheers mate that bits worked

The only problem is say if i open my pictures it says in the tool bar

C:\Documents and settings\Abdul Bawab \My Docuements \My Pictures

 

open the location up as a folder (sorry, don't know how to explain that bit)
click up through the folders until you get to the one with his name on it
change the name from his to yours

sorted

 

Sounds like you need to create a user account for yourself.

 

agreed
create your own user account ... transfer any files or pics you have to it .. then delete the abdul account

 

Cheers fellas yep that sounds like what im after, how do i go about doing it?

Thanks again

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default...279783&sd=tech

Should be enough.

 

Thanks guys, sorted! much appreciated