PC name too long!

I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a
shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

Thanks

Should have said, using XP SP3

"joe bloggs" wrote in message
...
I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to
a shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

Thanks

On 1/2/12 1:44 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Should have said, using XP SP3

"joe wrote in message
...
I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to
a shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

Thanks

1. Right click My Computer
2. Select Properties
3. Select Computer Name tab
4. Click the "Change" button near the bottom of the window
5. Enter a shorter name.


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Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
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Thunderbird 9.0.1
LibreOffice 3.4.4

Thanks, I was wrong its not actually the computer name, but what ever it is
(I can't fine the name at the moment) but as you can see its giving me huge
long file name prior to "my documents"

Thanks

"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...
On 1/2/12 1:44 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Should have said, using XP SP3

"joe wrote in message
...
I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a
name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this
to
a shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

Thanks

1. Right click My Computer
2. Select Properties
3. Select Computer Name tab
4. Click the "Change" button near the bottom of the window
5. Enter a shorter name.


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 9.0.1
Thunderbird 9.0.1
LibreOffice 3.4.4

On 1/2/12 2:27 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Thanks, I was wrong its not actually the computer name, but what ever it is
(I can't fine the name at the moment) but as you can see its giving me huge
long file name prior to "my documents"

Workgroup or network name? I can only guess with the info at hand. :-)


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 9.0.1
Thunderbird 9.0.1
LibreOffice 3.4.4

Sorry, I've totally lost what this name is now, I gave it during the set up
when reinstalling XP yesterday, I am sure someone must know from the
position of it in the link below

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

"Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a shorter name at
this stage?


"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...
On 1/2/12 2:27 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Thanks, I was wrong its not actually the computer name, but what ever it
is
(I can't fine the name at the moment) but as you can see its giving me
huge
long file name prior to "my documents"

Workgroup or network name? I can only guess with the info at hand. :-)


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 9.0.1
Thunderbird 9.0.1
LibreOffice 3.4.4

On 01/02/2012 04:02 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Sorry, I've totally lost what this name is now, I gave it during the set up
when reinstalling XP yesterday, I am sure someone must know from the
position of it in the link below

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

"Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a shorter name at
this stage?



Actually that's appears to be the name of your profile
and that notation cannot be changed even if you rename your profile.

I suggest simply creating a new profile such as Philip2
then delete the one causing problems


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279783

joe bloggs wrote:
Sorry, I've totally lost what this name is now, I gave it during the set up
when reinstalling XP yesterday, I am sure someone must know from the
position of it in the link below

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

"Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a shorter name at
this stage?

It's the account name.

You set up an account when you installed. And gave your name.
Apparently your name is "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43" :-)

If you look in the Control Panels, there is one for User Accounts.
Here the account name is "Dave Taylor".

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-...r-accounts.png

*******

If you go to Control Panels again, only this time use the "System"
control panel, and then the "Computer Name" tab, you can see
computer name info. But I think you've got a weird user account
name instead. Maybe your "Computer Name" is Joe Bloggs ? :-)

Just a guess,
Paul

From: "philo"

On 01/02/2012 04:02 PM, joe bloggs wrote:
Sorry, I've totally lost what this name is now, I gave it during the set up
when reinstalling XP yesterday, I am sure someone must know from the
position of it in the link below

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

"Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a shorter name at
this stage?



Actually that's appears to be the name of your profile
and that notation cannot be changed even if you rename your profile.

I suggest simply creating a new profile such as Philip2
then delete the one causing problems


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279783

+1


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Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:35:36 -0000, "joe bloggs"
wrote:

I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a
shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

That doesn't look like a computer name, it looks like a user name.

From: "Char Jackson"

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:35:36 -0000, "joe bloggs"
wrote:

I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a
shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

That doesn't look like a computer name, it looks like a user name.


It looks like an account was created by concatenating a name "Phillip" to a Machine Name.

Not unlike on my WinXP PC

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.DLIPMAN-1

DLipman-1 in my WinXP computer's name.

However changing the machine name won't change the created Profile The Profile is now
based upon the SID.

A new account needs to be created. To get a shortened path.

OR...

One can SUBSTitute a drive letter for the path such as...
SUBST P: "C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents"

Now "P:" represents the "My Documents" folder of the account without wasting ~60
characters of the of the NTFS max path length.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

I'm totally baffled by all of this, I'll leave it all as it is I think, it
all works fine which is the important thing

Thanks for the help all.

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Char Jackson"

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:35:36 -0000, "joe bloggs"
wrote:

I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a
name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this
to a
shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

That doesn't look like a computer name, it looks like a user name.


It looks like an account was created by concatenating a name "Phillip" to
a Machine Name.

Not unlike on my WinXP PC

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.DLIPMAN-1

DLipman-1 in my WinXP computer's name.

However changing the machine name won't change the created Profile The
Profile is now based upon the SID.

A new account needs to be created. To get a shortened path.

OR...

One can SUBSTitute a drive letter for the path such as...
SUBST P: "C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents"

Now "P:" represents the "My Documents" folder of the account without
wasting ~60 characters of the of the NTFS max path length.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

joe bloggs wrote:
I've just had to set up my lapton again and stupidly have given it a name
thats very long "Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43", is it possible to change this to a
shorter name at this stage?

C:\Documents and Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents

Thanks


That's your User Name.
I like short names, like "a".
Create a new user and copy all your links, shortcuts, data,
etc, to the new user, then log in with the new name.
I would keep the old one for a while in case something
goes wrong with the new one.

Joe Bloggs;1322902 Wrote:
I'm totally baffled by all of this, I'll leave it all as it is I think,
it
all works fine which is the important thing

Thanks for the help all.

You'll want to be careful of the lengths of any file names that are
saved in this user profile, because at some point they can become too
long and won't move/delete/etc...

for example: anything that comes after C:\Documents and
Settings\Philip.SAMSUNG-0975C43\My Documents should not be given too
large of a file or folder name.

Otherwise, there should be no problems at all with leaving the name the
way it is