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Windows 98 - Change the entries in the system properties

November 29, 2013
Updated: December 6, 2021
Quick overview:

If you right-click on the workstation and select Properties, basic information about your computer will appear: processor, memory, operating system, company and user name. However, the last two can be customized according to your own wishes, for example if you sell or give away your computer. To change this data, you must proceed as follows:

System personalization - how it works

1. Click Start/Run one after the other and type regedit in the command line that appears. The editor for editing the Windows registry will appear.

2. Navigate through the paths HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio and view the entries RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner in the right-hand pane.

3. If you now double-click on these entries, you will be given the opportunity to change your name and company. Further up under ProductName you will be given the option to change the operating system name. The system properties could now look like this.

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in 2001, his helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write for international publications such as PC-Praxis, Computerbild, PCWorld in the USA, IMTEST.de and Hifi.de. Sandro's main job is as Global Product Marketing Lead and Consultant for various global tech companies, including Microsoft, AVG, Avast, Nero, TeamViewer, Swiss IT Security Group and now currently in the fintech sector for Gendigital. But he can't get rid of his passion and shares his tweaks here again. Privately, he enjoys traveling the world and loves Asia, especially Japan, Singapore and Korea, but also natural places like Iceland and the Nordics. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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