by Jonathan Valentin (5 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sun 18th June 2000
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Change the registetered owner of your windows copy
API Declarations
Private Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Private Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib _
"advapi32.dll" Alias "RegCreateKeyA" _
(ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As _
String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib _
"advapi32.dll" (ByVal Hkey As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib _
"advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" _
(ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal _
lpValueName As String, ByVal _
Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType _
As Long, lpData As Any, ByVal _
cbData As Long) As Long
Private Const REG_SZ = 1
Private Const REG_DWORD = 4
VBcoders
Organization As String) As Boolean
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim bAns As Boolean
If OwnerName = "" Or Organization = "" Then
ChangeWindowsOwner = False
Exit Function
End If
bAns = SaveString(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, _
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion", _
"RegisteredOwner", OwnerName)
If bAns Then bAns = SaveString(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, _
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion", _
"RegisteredOrganization", Organization)
ChangeWindowsOwner = bAns
Exit Function
ErrorHandler:
ChangeWindowsOwner = False
Exit Function
End Function
Private Function SaveString(Hkey As Long, strPath As String, _
strValue As String, strdata As String) As Boolean
Dim keyhand As Long
Dim r As Long
r = RegCreateKey(Hkey, strPath, keyhand)
r = RegSetValueEx(keyhand, strValue, 0, _
REG_SZ, ByVal strdata, Len(strdata))
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand)
SaveString = (r = 0)
End Function
