How to Change Registered Owner and Organization Name in Windows?

When Windows is installed in a system, some information is asked to be entered during installation time. One such thing is Registered Owner and Organization name. You can enter any desired owner name and organization name at installation time. This information is shown in "System Properties", "Windows Version" and is also used while installing many 3rd party software.

Sometimes we might want to change this information because we entered some incorrect name at the installation time or may be because we got Windows already installed in our computers with some unwanted owner and organization names.

So here I'm posting a very small tutorial which can be used to change the Registered Owner and Organization name in Windows:

1. Following is a screenshot of "System Properties" which shows the Registered Owner as "Vishal" and Organization name as "Gupta":

2. To change this information, type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It'll open Registry editor. Now go to following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

3. In right-side pane, change the value of "RegisteredOwner" and "RegisteredOrganization" to any desired string:

4. Close Registry editor and open System properties again. Now it'll show the new Registered Owner and Organization names:

PS: You can also change Registered Owner and Organization names using various tweaking software. Almost all tweaking software provide options to change them.

This article was posted in Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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15 Comments

Sora

Thanks vishal i've been wondering how to change this all the time
goldi

Nice job VISHAL. what is pen_list_corrupt & irql_not_less_or_equal i am getting this messages on blue screen when i install driver of my Creative sound blaster 5.1 on windows vista but it works great in windows xp
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

thanks a lots.
Jayanth

very nice.. thanks VG...
kingzoul

thanks men. i ve thinking of the possible way of changing this, till i thought it wont be possible. i lost my recovery CD and recovered my PC from a friend own. each i did recover it always my friends name but not until now. it worked. you are a genius. more power to your elbow
Piyush

Hi Vg
can u help me with msgina.dll
i want to change the color of text such as turn off etc.
please send the reply on my email id
thanks in advance
wisehead

you are good vg but not good as me
Miriam

I have a profile for a user that is now used by someone else, the files still show the old name like: so&so's documents. Is it possible to change the owner for these files to the name of the new user?
VG

^^ Did you try to change user name from "Control Panel -> User Accounts"?
bhanu

very nice.. thanks VG…