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Old September 1st 10, 05:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default How to change username in cookies? e.g. [email protected]

franklin wrote:

Is the best method to create a new Windows user profile, and then copy user
data from the old user profile to the new profile as detailed here?:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;811151

I read about that method, and another method that involves editing the
registry key "RegisteredOwner" at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, so I'm
seeking to know the best method.

And, if I then do copy over the user data from the old user profile to the
new profile, will my applications all work afterwards retaining my prefs,
settings, etc., or will I need to edit any paths anywhere?


Best is to start a whole new discussion asking on how to migrate on
account profile to another [new] account profile rather than having it
get buried in this discussion. That's a whole other monster.

While Microsoft has their standard means of defining profiles and how to
migrate one to the other, there is actually a means of defining multiple
accounts to point at the SAME profile. So you could regularly login
under your own "franklin" admin-level account and make changes to it,
like rearrange the Start menu, put shortcuts on the desktop, and so on.
If the "Administrator" and "franklin" accounts were defined to point at
the same profile, you could then logon under the Administrator account
and magically see it presented with all the changes you already made to
your franklin account. So instead of duplicating the profiles and
copying them to another profile (one account, one profile), you can
setup Windows to have multiple accounts point at the same profile (many
accounts, one shared profile). This gets very tricky, usually works
well if done right, but can lead into some nasty problems later so I
quit doing that a long time ago.

See my other reply as to why your username and accountname have
different values (but username still has the original value and still
gets used for cookie filenames).

I you don't like the username that got recorded for your account (and
will continue to get used for you account despite changing the
accountname value), you'll have to create a new account and copy your
profile from the old account to the new account. To do the copying
requires a 3rd account (admin level) so that none of the files are
locked for either the source or target accounts. So start a new thread
if you want to discuss how to copy a profile from an old to new account.

RegisteredOwner has nothing to do with either the username or
accountname values. That's what you specified when you installed
Windows. It is rarely the same value as your username (or accountname).
You might create an account on the install of Windows that was called
JesusChrist but register it under the name of Lucifer. Your username
remains JesusChrist even if you change the registeredOwner to Amadeus.
As noted in my other reply, renaming the *account* from JesusChrist to
GodDamnIt still has JesusChrist as the username for that same account.
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