[python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office

[Tim Golden]

On 27/04/2010 22:43, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah. Amazing how I managed to read your explanation and then internally
translate it into meaning something rather different.

Hopefully my code will have helped the OP out at any rate... I seem to be
having a bad week for offering help :)

TJG