If you’re a PC owner in any version of Windows, there’s a good chance that you have to change the registered PC owner. This is because different versions of Windows have different ways of tracking who owns a computer. In Windows 7 and 8, for example, the registered PC owner is the person who has logged on to the computer. In Windows 10, however, the registered PC owner is whoever has been assigned to manage the computer by Microsoft. To change the registered PC owner in any version of Windows, follow these steps:

  1. Open an elevated command prompt and type “netstat -an”. This will show you all active network connections on your computer.
  2. Look for a connection that says “Microsoft Corporation” or something similar and identify it as belonging to someone other than your current registered PC owner. For example, if you see this connection: Microsoft Corporation -> Localhost -> Connection 1 then your current registered PC owner is probably not responsible for this connection and you should change them accordingly.
  3. Type “netstat -a” again and look for a connection that says “Microsoft Corporation” or something similar and identify it as belonging to someone other than your current registered PC owner again. For example, if you see this connection: Microsoft Corporation -> Localhost -> Connection 2 then your current registered PC owner is probably responsible for this connection and you should change them accordingly.

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or by pressing WIN + R to open the Run box and typing it there, and then locate the following registry key:

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Now you can find the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys in the right-hand pane. Change them to whatever values you want.

To show off the new changes, just type winver.exe into the start menu search box or WIN + R run box to see the About Windows box:

Kinda useless, but one of those things I have to write about if I want to cover everything :)

This should work in all versions of Windows, including Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.