TwoDogs, tell him to run regedit as per previous instructions. Then, from the Edit menu select Find. Type in the nickname. There can be a space in the search string if the nickname has more than one part. However the search string must be exact. Then he should record the location of all of the occurrences. There should be a key such as F3 for finding the next occurrence after the first search.. .. .It should be safe to change any of these to the desired string but my preference with the registry is to make one change at a time, save, and see what happens. That is why I suggest that he simply record at first all the locations. Let's see what's there before telling him to make any changes.. .. .Another suggestion is to download the following clone of the UNIX grep utility.. .<a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~hmillington/grep22setup.exe" target="_blank">http://www.btinternet.com/~hmillington/grep22setup.exe</a>. .This will search many files at once for a particular string. Run that program, click on Search, type in the nickname. Here the name might be split into first and last names so just search for one of them. Click on Next, then set the directory to C
Windows, then Next, then in the Custom File specification, type *.ini , click on Next, then Finish. Grep will search all ini files for the nickname. It may appear in Msregusr.ini or profiles.ini or possibly someplace else. Let's see where.. .. .The grep utility is shareware. Your friend doesn't sound like a programmer so he probably doesn't need it longterm. It can be uninstalled after this use.