Need to stop Office from asking for user name....

I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed. All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph

How to change the company name and user name in Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821550

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"

For Office 2007 the keypath is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"




--
TXGuy [MSFT]


"Ralph Malph" wrote:

I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed. All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph

TXGuy,

Thank you for responding.

I have tried your solution, along with several other Reg hacks, as well as
the OTC for Off 2007 but none seem to do the job. (See Below) (My problem is
more with 2k7 than 2k3 as we are in the middle of moving to 2k7, providing we
can gain control over this VERY important and annoying 2K7 bug.

In the new OCT tools in 2K7 , you can only preset the user name and
initials for one user, not ALL users. (Another typical half a__ job by MS).

Below are some of the many different REG hacks such I have seen in my search
for an answer, but they do not
stop 2K7 from prompting the user for name etc. And if they did, they would
have to be run every time the user logs in. Very inefficient! But if it
would work I would make use of it.


Option 1

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo]
"Company"=""
"UserName"="John Doe"
"UserInitials"="JD"


Option 2

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v ShownOptIn /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d "John
Doe"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d JD



Option 3

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo]
"Company"=""
"UserName"="John Doe"
"UserInitials"="JD"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\General]
"ShownOptIn"=dword:00000001

Option 4

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 5

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 6 Accepted Answer at Exchange Experts. It did not work for me.

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 7

echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v
ShownOptIn /t REG_DWORD /d 1
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company /d
"Name of Company Here"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v
CompanyName /d "Name of Company Here"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName
/d "%username%"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v
UserInitials /d %username:~0,2%

Option 8

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v ShownOptIn /t
REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company /d "Name
of Company Here" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v CompanyName /d
"Name of Company Here" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2% /f

Option 9

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo]
"UserName"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"UserInitials"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"Company"=hex:53,00,74,00,2e,00,20,00,50,00,65,00, 74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,62,\
00,75,00,72,00,67,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,6c,00,6c,00 ,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00


[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General]
"ShownOptIn"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo]
"UserName"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"UserInitials"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"Company"=hex:53,00,74,00,2e,00,20,00,50,00,65,00, 74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,62,\
00,75,00,72,00,67,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,6c,00,6c,00 ,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00


I have also tried to add this info in to the HKU\.Default area of the reg
but it did no good.

I have also tried looking at the following reg section but nothing placed in
this
section stops the prompt for user name etc.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\00002109030000000000000000F01FEC\Insta llProperties]
"RegCompany"="St. College"
"RegOwner"="user.name"

Anyway any help fixing this Office 2K7 deficiency will be greatly
appreciated by me and many others.

Thanks again TXGuy,

Ralph Malph


"TXGuy" wrote:

How to change the company name and user name in Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821550

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"

For Office 2007 the keypath is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"




--
TXGuy [MSFT]


"Ralph Malph" wrote:

I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed. All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph

The fact that the user profiles are set to be deleted after each logoff means
that you will need to implement an Active Directory (or similar) logon script
to repopulate the registry values for each user's profile, each time they log
onto their respective client machines:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Commo n\UserInfo" /v
UserName /t REG_SZ /d "RalphMalph" /f

The OCT would only set it once, so no that definitely not work.

--
TXGuy [MSFT]


"Ralph Malph" wrote:

TXGuy,

Thank you for responding.

I have tried your solution, along with several other Reg hacks, as well as
the OTC for Off 2007 but none seem to do the job. (See Below) (My problem is
more with 2k7 than 2k3 as we are in the middle of moving to 2k7, providing we
can gain control over this VERY important and annoying 2K7 bug.

In the new OCT tools in 2K7 , you can only preset the user name and
initials for one user, not ALL users. (Another typical half a__ job by MS).

Below are some of the many different REG hacks such I have seen in my search
for an answer, but they do not
stop 2K7 from prompting the user for name etc. And if they did, they would
have to be run every time the user logs in. Very inefficient! But if it
would work I would make use of it.


Option 1

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo]
"Company"=""
"UserName"="John Doe"
"UserInitials"="JD"


Option 2

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v ShownOptIn /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d "John
Doe"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d JD



Option 3

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo]
"Company"=""
"UserName"="John Doe"
"UserInitials"="JD"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\General]
"ShownOptIn"=dword:00000001

Option 4

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 5

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 6 Accepted Answer at Exchange Experts. It did not work for me.

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%"
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2%


Option 7

echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v
ShownOptIn /t REG_DWORD /d 1
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company /d
"Name of Company Here"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v
CompanyName /d "Name of Company Here"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName
/d "%username%"
echo y| Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v
UserInitials /d %username:~0,2%

Option 8

Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General /v ShownOptIn /t
REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v Company /d "Name
of Company Here" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v CompanyName /d
"Name of Company Here" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserName /d
"%username%" /f
Reg Add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo /v UserInitials /d
%username:~0,2% /f

Option 9

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo]
"UserName"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"UserInitials"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"Company"=hex:53,00,74,00,2e,00,20,00,50,00,65,00, 74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,62,\
00,75,00,72,00,67,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,6c,00,6c,00 ,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00


[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General]
"ShownOptIn"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo]
"UserName"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"UserInitials"=hex:53,00,50,00,43,00,00,00
"Company"=hex:53,00,74,00,2e,00,20,00,50,00,65,00, 74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,62,\
00,75,00,72,00,67,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,6c,00,6c,00 ,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00


I have also tried to add this info in to the HKU\.Default area of the reg
but it did no good.

I have also tried looking at the following reg section but nothing placed in
this
section stops the prompt for user name etc.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\00002109030000000000000000F01FEC\Insta llProperties]
"RegCompany"="St. College"
"RegOwner"="user.name"

Anyway any help fixing this Office 2K7 deficiency will be greatly
appreciated by me and many others.

Thanks again TXGuy,

Ralph Malph


"TXGuy" wrote:

How to change the company name and user name in Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821550

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"

For Office 2007 the keypath is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo
"UserName"=REG_SZ "Ralph"




--
TXGuy [MSFT]


"Ralph Malph" wrote:

I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed. All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph

"Ralph Malph" wrote in message
...
I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed.
All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started
it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph


You have a Login when the machine starts that is deleted when the machine is
turned off.

You have users that float, so they login and logout from different machines,
and the user information is deleted when they logout.

You want Office to _not_ ask for user data when it starts?


What would happen if you went into Word, ToolsOptionsUser Information, and
set the User Data to a strange word that would not be repeated in normal
language -- I used ZZYZX -- then searched the Registry for the entry, and
searched inside of files for the stringn to appear. Then set the string to
YOUR COMPANY NAME and made sure that this portion of the User Data was not
deleted when the users log out of the machine?

I played around with my Word User Information, and found that if I made the
User Information to be blank, then closed Word and restarted it, it asked
for new User Information and suggested default data from some other Registry
location. If I went ahead and input a value, then that value would be
retained and I was not asked for it again. Having said that, I did not
Restart my machine, I simply opened Word after editing the value of the User
Information Tab in ToolsOptions.

Thanks to all who replied, Jeff, TXGuy, etc...

Here is my final "fix"...


I put a call in the reg to run this on every startup....(MS need to fix it
so I can set what I want in the default profile and not have to do this !!!!)

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Commo n\UserInfo" /v
UserName /t REG_SZ /d "St. Petersburg College" /f
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Commo n\UserInfo" /v
UserInitials /t REG_SZ /d "SPC" /f

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ User
Settings\Product code" /v Count /t REG_Dword /d 00000001 /f

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Common\General" /v
ShownOptIn /t REG_Dword /d 00000001 /f



It seems to be doing the job I need it to do. Also durring my research on
this problem I found references to two different values to the following key
as one of two keys needed to stop the prompt to set your privacy options.

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Common\General" /v
Authorized /t REG_Dword /d 00009904 /f


And

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Genera l" /v Authorized
/t REG_Dword /d 7fffffff /f

The strange thing about these settings is that if use the syntax shown in a
..Bat file, the setting fails, but if I just change the value to 00000001 or
00000000 then it works. More strange is that if I make the same setting using
a .reg file (With appropriate syntax) It can use the numbers shown. Another
typical MS inconsistency/defect/bug that I bet MS will never fix.

Fortunately it seems that this setting was not needed after all.


Note to MS: ALWAYS make sure that the admin can set ALL default in the
..default profile the way they want for ALL option on ALL products at ALL
times, no exceptions. I should be able to make it so that a user is NEVER
asked for any kind of personal info etc. Working anonymously MUST be the
default option. It is a BAD idea to ever put your name on a system, EVIL guys
know where to find it and will exploit it. (Yes MS is one of those guys) It
should MS goal to enable one to surf the net use a PC ect with out ANY kind
of trace for an evil guy or marketer to use. And I could go on....

Sorry about the rant, thanks for listening.

Again thanks to all for for the help,

Ralph Malph


"Jeff Strickland" wrote:


"Ralph Malph" wrote in message
...
I have a large number of PCs with Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed.
All
PCs are "Frozen". Users will log in to system with unique user names and
passwords. The profile created when a "new" user logs in will be deleted
every time the system restarts. As a result, every time Office is started
it
asks for the User name and their initials. How do I permanently stop this
and/or modify the default profile so that no one ever gets asked for this
info and so that the info is the same for everyone etc.

I need this info for both 2k3 and 2k7 office.

Thanks

Ralph Malph


You have a Login when the machine starts that is deleted when the machine is
turned off.

You have users that float, so they login and logout from different machines,
and the user information is deleted when they logout.

You want Office to _not_ ask for user data when it starts?


What would happen if you went into Word, ToolsOptionsUser Information, and
set the User Data to a strange word that would not be repeated in normal
language -- I used ZZYZX -- then searched the Registry for the entry, and
searched inside of files for the stringn to appear. Then set the string to
YOUR COMPANY NAME and made sure that this portion of the User Data was not
deleted when the users log out of the machine?

I played around with my Word User Information, and found that if I made the
User Information to be blank, then closed Word and restarted it, it asked
for new User Information and suggested default data from some other Registry
location. If I went ahead and input a value, then that value would be
retained and I was not asked for it again. Having said that, I did not
Restart my machine, I simply opened Word after editing the value of the User
Information Tab in ToolsOptions.