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* To find system configuration on Windows, use msinfo32 (Step by step instructions: http://www.wikihow.com/Find-System-Specs) | * To find system configuration on Windows, use msinfo32 (Step by step instructions: http://www.wikihow.com/Find-System-Specs) | ||
** You can download the steps for your offline reference [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/8/87/How_to_find_system_specs.pdf here.] | ** You can download the steps for your offline reference [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/8/87/How_to_find_system_specs.pdf here.] | ||
* | * In Notepad (or other text editor), open the .txt file exported from msinfo32. Approximately line 30 should be "User Name<tabspace><computer-name>\<personal-name>". | ||
** | ** For example: Some computers are set up with the person's first and last name. Bob Smith may have set up his computer with computer name HOMEPC and with user name BOBSMITH. You will find this information around line 30 in the msinfo32 text file. | ||
** To respect Bob's privacy and because Mozilla does not need to know about Bob, replace all occurrences of BOBSMITH in the msinfo32 file with the text "U-N". Why U-N? It could have been anything. We will use a script to read files and U-N is short and different enough to detect. | |||
** Save the msinfo32 file with this edit. | |||
* Copy the edited msinfo32 file to USB drive | * Copy the edited msinfo32 file to USB drive | ||