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Change Manufacturer Properties in Vista

If you are deploying a lot of Vista machines in your organization, you may want to consider updating the OEM information that gets shown in the System Properties. This adds a nice level of customization that makes it easy for your users to know where to find support, what hours support is available... and it's just a fun thing to do to lighten up the corporate drudgery. To do it, you need edit the registry.

Open the registry editor and navigate to this section: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE + SOFTWARE + Microsoft + Windows + CurrentVersion + OEMInformation. Once you get there, you'll find fields that allow you to update the following:

- Logo (this needs to be a bitmap file)
- Manufacturer
- SupportHours
- SupportPhone
- SupportURL

Using these fields, you can add a nice level of customization to the System Properties panel for your organization.
Rating: 100% positive, 7 total Votes
Categories: Vista windows regedit customization
Added: on Jun 05, 2008 at 8:14 am
Added By: kant
Searches: vista customization window regedit properties

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You can also add the model/make with the string "Model"
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