Windows 10 allows you to add OEM support information in the System Properties. The OEM information includes your company name, phone number, website URL, and even a custom logo. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to easily add OEM support information to a Windows 10 computer, with the sole purpose of assisting customers.
Open up regedit on any of the computer (Windows Vista and above with RSAT installed), navigate to HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion OEMInformation and create a registry string Logo (Do not set any value yet. Yep, very simple. I used group policy preferences to push out a company logo, and also to set the registry key. You can also set OEM information; for example, manufacturer and model, above the system information. Only OEM customized versions of Windows 10 have these files. If you used installation image from Microsoft, then these information will be missing. However, I managed to obtain these files after long search. You'll find them in this topic with information about files locations. Please let me know, if you need files for ThinkPad devices - I can. On Windows 10 you can easily see this OEM support information on the Settings page and in the System Properties window. Windows 10 allows users to add, edit or remove OEM support information. These are special information that hardware vendors can complement by displaying their logo, name, computer model, support phone number, URL and time zone.
How to Add OEM Support Information to Your Windows 10 Computer?
- Press the Windows key + R to open the Run command box. Type regedit and press Enter.
- Once Registry Editor is opened, navigate to below following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionOEMInformationWith the OEMInformation key selected on the left, right-click any empty space on the right side and choose New > String Value.
- Name the new value as Manufacturer, and then change its value to your company name or the vendor’s name.
- Repeat the above step to add other OEM support information: Model, SupportHours, SupportPhone, SupportURL, Logo. The logo must be a BMP image file and cannot be bigger than 120×120 pixels in size.
- Now open System Properties by right-clicking on This PC icon on the desktop and selecting Properties, you’ll see your customized Manufacturer information listed under the System section. If you add a support telephone number or website, they’ll appear in a separate Support section of the window.
With these simple steps, you can add completely custom OEM support information to a Windows 10 PC. This can come in handy if you’re building PCs for others, or if you just want to add a unique and custom aspect to your system.
Windows 10 gives users a great feature to specify the OEM information. You can easily modify and delete it, or add your own — it’s up to you! This can be useful in case you want to give more uniqueness to the machine by displaying your own contact information, your company logotype, URL of website and other values in the System program of Control Panel for single-language, single-region computers.
How to add or modify OEM info in System Properties dialog box?
The instructions below are pretty simple — all you need is to add a few keys in registry. We remind you, that you can do a harm to your computer and it will stop working in case you will make some mistakes in keys settings. Do this on your own risk!
Press Win +R and type in regedit.
After that, go to branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionOEMInformation
Tip: Since the Windows 10 Creators Update, you can get to folder by pasting a branch name just in the address field.
If the key OEMInformation does not exist, you need to create it. After that you need to create your own list of parameters, using menu Create -> New String Value.
In every string you need to set the Value name and the Value data.
Most likely, in case you are building your own PC, you won’t find any data in OEMInformation string. You are free to set any parameters by using the key names bellow:
- Manufacturer— manufacturer name (for example, Samsung).
- Model— model of PC (for example, Swift 7).
- SupportHours— support hours. Here we need to set time for technical support. For example, 10:00-16:00. You can enter 256 symbols maximum.
- SupportPhone— phone number of technical support. You can enter 256 symbols maximum.
- SupportURL— technical support URL (later the link will be clickable in the dialog box).
- Logo— manufacturer logotype. This one shows the logo in System Properties dialog box. You need to create a desired BITMAP file with 120×120 px maximum dimension and 32-bit color. Place it on the system drive and set the path to file in key value.
If these values are already there, you can delete or modify them in the way you like. After finished, log out of the operating system and then log in again to see if the changes implemented successfully. To do this go to Settings -> About, here check if the new OEMInformation data appeared under Support headline.
Change Windows 10 Oem Info
Tip: In case you don’t want logging out of the system, you can try to restart Explorer.exe process using Task Manager.