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Posted by : Unknown Friday, 16 August 2013

customized windows oem info



OEM its the abbreviation for Original Equipment Manufacturer . OEM Information is used by the manufacturers of your laptop or pc to display their company logo,system model etc in your system properties like in the above image ( though it is a modified one ).so we are gonna tweak this OEM Info to show our desired values and logo,like in the above image.


  • First open windows registry editor.you can do it by typing "regedit" in run or even search for it in windows search
opening registry editor


  • Just create a backup of your registry,in case you screw it up,
  • goto file menu,select export and then give it a name,select back up all and hit save
backup registry

  • Now navigate to the following reg key value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation




  • There add new string value by right clicking on the empty pane
adding new registry keys




  • You need to create the following string values
   Manufacturer
   Model
   SupportPhone
   SupportHours
   Website
   Logo
  • Incase they are already present,you can just modify them.
  • Now right click on the string and modify its value
modifying registry keys

editing registry string

  • Repeat this for all the strings,i think the string names are self explanatory,
  • and now for the logo,you would need a  120X120 bmp image,you can convert your selected image into bmp and specified resolution using this Online converter
  • Now copy your generated bmp image to folowing location
C:\Windows\System32\oobe\

oobe folder

  • Now edit the logo value to the path specified and then you image name with a .bmp extension
  • Now restart your computer and there you go!your own customized OEM Info.

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