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| 709115 | 2008-10-01 19:31:00 | My office is replacing all the desktops. I want to delete our company's name that is registered on the Win XP Pro. How do I do it without having to delete everything? | Taurus (9579) | ||
| 709116 | 2008-10-01 19:41:00 | Could write it all out, but being lazy today - you dive into the registry and then follow These instructions here (support.microsoft.com) - under the name either company / owner, either leave it blank or put in a . | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 709117 | 2008-10-01 19:47:00 | Being that these are office PCs wouldn't it be better to get them wiped clean by a professional and have windows reinstalled?? Otherwise there could still be data retrieved even if you think you have deleted it :eek: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 709118 | 2008-10-01 20:04:00 | Just adding to my post above - while that will change the owers name etc in Windows, if you have office ( any Version) that wont be changed, the company Name, assuming it was entered when installing will still be there, that can be altered as well if required. CYaBro's post is a very valid point and worth while considering. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 709119 | 2008-10-02 06:42:00 | Being that these are office PCs wouldn't it be better to get them wiped clean by a professional and have windows reinstalled?? Otherwise there could still be data retrieved even if you think you have deleted it :eek: I treid the instructions given by wainuitech. It's still better to wipe out the data as suggested. Thanks for the advice CYaBro. We are on a tight budget. So some of the work got to do it myself. The IBM desktops and notebooks were easier. Its in-built stuff allows me to restore them to factory defaults. The problem now is that someone has changed the password to access the recovery stuff on 1 of the notebooks and no longer remembers it. Any idea how I can overcome this problem? The IBM service centre says nothing can be done. Apparently, Toshiba notebooks are different. We have 1 unit Tecra. How do I restore them to factory default? Don't remember seeing any CDs that comes with it. Only 2 units left to do out of 13. Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
Taurus (9579) | ||
| 709120 | 2008-10-02 07:08:00 | Best just to get hold of a 'plain' OS CD (an original one by Microsoft)and wipe it using that, then reinstall the drivers and only the programs you want - and no Toshiba/IBM cr@p! | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 709121 | 2008-10-02 07:53:00 | e problem now is that someone has changed the password to access the recovery stuff on 1 of the notebooks and no longer remembers it. Might be just me not thinking right - I feel like my Aviator at the moment :dogeye: - But what "recovery Stuff" are you referring to being locked out of please. Also as mentioned before if you have MS Office you may want to change that as well - do you have office on the PC's and if so what version(s) ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 709122 | 2008-10-02 08:19:00 | The recovery offers 4 choices - repair XP with all other software intact, repair XP, recover from another hard disk or just install XP as though it is brand new without any other software. I opt for the last one where it erases everything on the hard drive and install XP and IBM stuff only. When I boot up the system, it asks me all those setup questions as though I am installing XP for the first time. Basically, it's like a recovery disc but IBM has it on a partition of the hard disk. It can only be accessed before the system boots up to XP, something like accessing the BIOS. Takes about 0.5 hour for each machine. But I a now stuck with 2. One with password which no one remembers and the other is a Toshiba Tecra which i cannot find any recovey disc. |
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