The registered owner is recorded in the registry. Use Registry Editor to
change the RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner values in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

If you are talking about some other place where a username is recorded, then
please advise the specific place that you are seeing it.

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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"biganchor" wrote in message
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I received a computer from my friend with Window 98 SE. How do I
re-register
my name onto the computer and get rid of his name? Thank you.