[python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office

[Tim Roberts]

Tim Golden wrote:
> On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 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.
>
> On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded
> strings (null-terminated):

Exactly.  They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as
REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons.

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