Anyone know how? I've snooped with resedit and the like but I haven't found where the installer stamps the name so that every install has the same owners name. It's purely aesthetic, I know, but I'd like to install it with my own name.
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2011, October 17 - 4:26am
#1
How to change owners name in Word 5.1?
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2011, October 17 - 4:50am
#2
PersonalizeWord_1.0.sit should help. I'll upload it on request if you can't find it.
2011, October 17 - 9:58pm
#3
Thanks, that did the trick.
2011, October 17 - 10:06pm
#4
I've snooped with resedit and the like but I haven't found where
Thats because on this Install floppy, the personalization is written to the the data fork and not to the resource fork. You need a Hex Editor to edit the data, such as HexEdit and not ResEdit.
On a copy of the "Install" disk, open the file "Word Installer" in a hex editor.
In a hex editors window you should see a bunch of character rows in the hex column beginning:
0000000: 4C 41 78 etc, etc.
Remove all of the characters back to up to the 78 then add 0D (zero + D). The row should be:
0000000: 4C 41 78 0D
To the right of this in the text column you should see only LAx. (with the trailing ".").
Save and test, preferably using a copy of the modified install disk. It should ask for your user details here. It also will want to write them to the "Word Installer" file so it will insist on the disk being unlocked so it can do so.
2011, October 18 - 2:52am
#5
Interesting. Thank you for the information. On a PC, I'd have fired up a hex editor to start with but figured, erroneously, that they would use the resource fork on a Mac.
Good lesson.
2011, October 18 - 8:22am
#6
Well, the user info can be stored anywhere including a resource of the resource fork of a classic Mac file, just happens this one writes it to the data fork.
I own the original install set of Word 5.1 and had when installing, used a back up of the install set. So still had the pristine original set and could easily check the differences that had been made to the Install disk.
2011, October 19 - 12:45am
#7
PersonalizeWord_1.0.sit is not here
(I couldn´t find it)
It would be nice to have it at MacGarden since Word 5.1 is a popular program.
2011, October 19 - 2:13pm
#8
I have uploaded PersonalizeWord 1.0 here:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/microsoft-word
2011, October 19 - 8:03pm
#9
Thanks for the upload.
2012, August 13 - 4:33am
#10
MikeTomTom, you are the man! I've searched the internet from front to back trying to find a virgin Install disk for Word 5.1a and thanks to you I found I had the ability to create one myself. Now, If I can just find the installation disks for MacDraw Pro 1.5v3 and/or the Claris updater for 1.5v1 to 1.5v3.
2012, August 13 - 1:11pm
#11
Now, If I can just find the installation disks for MacDraw Pro 1.5v3 and/or the Claris updater for 1.5v1 to 1.5v3.
You can install the 1.5v1 set from here (maybe you already have) then replace the 1.5v1 with the pre-installed 1.5v3 from here, both are located under "C" APPS section, with the other Claris apps.
The 1.5v3 copy from here was an inside Apple only release, so to "virginize" this one, it requires a few extra steps:
1) Install from the 1.5v1 set. Do not run MacDraw Pro just yet.
2) Extract the 1.5v3 archive to some location on your HD.
3) Open the data fork of the extracted 1.5v3 app in a Hex editor (HexEdit if you have it).
4) Delete the entire contents of the data fork and Quit the hex editor, saving as you go.
5) Open the previously installed 1.5v1 app in ResEdit. Copy DITL resource 130
6) Open the extracted 1.5v3 in ResEdit and replace DITL resource 130 with your 1.5v1 copy and Quit/Save.
You should now have a 1.5v3 that wants your full personalization details when you 1st launch it.
As with all Claris progs pre FileMaker Pro 4, serialization is optional, not required.
You might also want to date/version compare other files from the pre-installed 1.5v3 set, to see if they are newer than what gets installed with the 1.5v1 set and replace items as necessary.
2012, August 15 - 1:40am
#12
Many thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot tonight. I know I'm being picky with all of this but I'm really interested in preserving, as close to pristine as possible, the apps that I cut my teeth on in the 'Macintosh' world. I consider some of these apps works of art and don't want them to be forgotten.
2012, August 15 - 2:42am
#13
Outstanding, it worked perfectly. Thank you again.
2012, August 15 - 10:41am
#14
Glad it worked for you, too.
Those instructions are only for the Claris MacDraw Pro 1.5v3 pre-installed copy from here, which is an Apple corps only, release, and has a non standard DITL resource 130. If you come across a pre-installed personalized 1.5v3 and its a general public released copy, you'll only need to delete the data fork with a hex editor, none of the other steps being required to restore it to an original condition.
Preferably, one day a complete install set for 1.5v3 (or an updater to it) will surface and none of the above will be necessary.