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Mladen Janković
Mladen Janković

Reputation: 8045

How to change registration company name for Visual Studio 2008?

Is there a way to change name of company to which the Visual Studio 2008 is registered without reinstalling it?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 17837

Answers (5)

Stuart Thompson
Stuart Thompson

Reputation: 1859

For what it's worth I wrote up a set of instructions to do this here: http://blog.stuartthompson.net/2010/03/changing-visual-studio-registration-information/

I didn't find a full solution until I learned about the devenv /setup step and SplashInfo key.

Upvotes: 27

reinder
reinder

Reputation: 2551

For those who are interested, this is how you do it in Visual Studio 2012.

  1. Open Registry Editor (Start->Run->type “regedit”->press enter)
  2. Find the following key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\Registration\UserName
  3. Change it’s value to the desired name
  4. Navigate to the following folder: C:\Users{YOUR_USER}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0 (replace the placeholder with your own username)
  5. Delete the file vs000223.dat – this is actually a JPG file containing the splash screen, you can change it’s name to see it for yourself
  6. Start Visual Studio, and it magically recreates the file with the modified name in it!

Upvotes: 1

random9q
random9q

Reputation:

This baffled me as well, several times. I'd installed VS2005 before and just had to go through this headache again as I'm rebuilding my notebook. The installer for VS2005Pro never asks me my organization, just a user name. Then it defaults to the notebook manufacturer. Since I do not work for the manufacturer of my notebook, I think it might be trouble for me later if I shipped stuff out with that manufacturer's name embedded on it.

AND I'd already intuited that it ought to be tweakable from the registry, AND even gone so far as to export the whole registry and done a global search-and-replace from notepad, AND cleaned up those straggling keys that were locked when I reloaded my edited registry.

No effect.

Giovanni Galbo in his answer wrote to reference the article: http://bytes.com/forum/thread635503.html and also mentioned the key it borrows from if there isn't already a Registered Organization.

But what if "RegisteredOrganization" isn't present? It still defaults to "".

ADD the key. Set the value yourself. Fixed.

I assume this works just as well with most other versions of VS, including VS2008.

Upvotes: 1

Giovanni Galbo
Giovanni Galbo

Reputation: 13081

This should have the answer you are looking for : http://bytes.com/forum/thread635503.html

For the CompanyName in AssemblyInfo, it's $registeredorganization$ which uses value from registry key value from HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization.

Upvotes: 34

Jim Blackler
Jim Blackler

Reputation: 23169

A quick suggestion, bring up RegEdit and search for the existing company name string. Then attempt to change it.

Upvotes: 0

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