If you go to YouTube and search the term "hack into emac" I'll bet you will find something. The idea of hacking into imacs and emacs is fooling the system into thinking that it's being set initially, and all the hacks involve removing a line of code that confirms setup choices and so causes a fresh setup - just as if it were new! You won't lose any software as you do this... there is no downside.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Bill Chapman <pagew...@interlog.com>wrote: > That happened to me when I won an eBay bid on a Powerbook last year. > What I did was contact the seller through eBay and he told me how to > change that... I forget what he told me, but it worked. > > Ramon Pubill wrote: > > I am posting on behalf of my 73 year old dad. He's beginning to get > > "concerned" that his new eMac has "John Doe's eMac" when we use the > > computer tab for finder windows. > > > > We just bought this eMac off eBay, it really doesn't belong to a guy > > called John Doe. So I created a new account on my dad's name, hoping > > it would fix that but No; the computer is still "John Doe's eMac" and > > we want to be able to change it. I am only familiar with some > > commands in Terminal so if it requires the use of such tool, I will > > use it with a lot of caution and need to be walked through please. We > > do not have OS disk at all, so if it requires a system re-install > > (which I hope it doesn't) then we might be out of luck. > > > > I am sure other people who buy used Mac have seen this before. I had > > an old G3 that was "Bob's G3" but it didn't bother me; so I left it > > alone, used it for 2 years no problem. > > > > If it helps at all, our setup is: > > > > eMac 1.25Ghz > > OS 10.4.11 > > 512MB RAM > > > > Thanks!! > > > > On behalf of: > > R. Pubill > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<imaclist%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
