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[rsteeghs]

Whe have several internal business.
They asked if it's possbile in the microsoft office suite to change the company info.
(you can check file, properties. Then you see Company: Company A.
For Company B i also want to change the name.
So i created a registry item in powerfuse:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo\Company
CompanyB
This is binary data.

If you set this registry key and then start word, word changes this value back to the orginal value that we specified at the setup.

I know this is not really a powefuse problem but maybe somebody had this problem before.
I searched for this on the portal but could only find how to change the username.

[Starup]

Have you set this as a PowerLaunch option on the application itself or?

[rsteeghs]

I didn't set the registry setting on the application itself.
I created 2 registry items in powerlaunch, based on in what OU the users are they get Company A or Company B

[RESguru]

Seems spooky if Word should be overwriting it uppon startup? Have you monitored what's going on with, say ProcessMon?

[rsteeghs]

I will try to find out what's happening. But i'll guess that when you start word, word queries the hklm\software\microsoft\office\... and changes the company info to what we specified at the setup.

[Yuri]

Did you check the values in the Shadow key?

[Alex]

Does it work if you set the PowerLaunch registry key on the application? Then the key is changed when the application starts up.

[rsteeghs]

Does it work if you set the PowerLaunch registry key on the application? Then the key is changed when the application starts up.

I tried this but the value isn't changed.

I found out that Word queries the following key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\9040110900063D11C8EF10054038389C\InstallProperties\RegCompany

If you delete this key then you company info is empty. You can also change this key.
Then it writes the value to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Office\11.0\Common\Userinfo\

If i can put a variable in the regcompany item, then i can create a variable in powefuse for example %company%=companyA

I searched if i can set a variable in the registry but i can't find an answer yet.

[RESguru]

Kinda sounds to me like this is something which was bundled into the Office package you are installing. I'm not an expert on it, but AFAIK using the ORK tools or whatever they are called these days, you should be able to preconfigure the Officepackage to do some of these things like preconfigure word to dunk something into the company info registry.

I'd go look at the package, or try with a fresh install of Office to see if it does the same. Would be very suprised to hear it did.

Hope this helps