Mike Driscoll wrote: > > I am looking for a way to set the UserInitials and Username in > Microsoft Office applications. The reason is that we have had some > users who have managed to put their initials into some Office programs > when a different user was logged in and this has made it difficult to > tell who has what open. From what I've read so far, the information is > encoded in the Registry here: > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo > > I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing > something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this > information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4
??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, but that's just a silly accident. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
