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Names and directories related to User Accounts on XP Pro
Just setting up a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop with XP Professional, with
the default Admin account Default Admin, one newly created Admin account Myname Admin, and two further limited privilege user accounts - Bill and Ben. guest account is off. During the Setup process I managed to make a mistake in naming the Myname Admin and gave it a name I wanted to use for one of the user accounts by mistake. I then changed the name in the installed Windows "User Accounts" interface to Myname Admin and that was reflected in the logon screen. However I see that the various folder names reflect the original name given during Setup, so that I now have a set of user folders under Documents and Settings - "Bill" (which relates to Myname Admin) and "Bill_2" which relates to Bill - the user account. And Ben - but that is fine. I noticed it when I was about to set up OpenOffice and it was selecting its document folder and it wasn't called what I was expecting. I aborted the Open Office setup at that point. I would like to know if there is an easy way to rename those folders (relating to Myname Admin, but called Bill) globally or whether I should just delete the Myname Admin account and then create another one? I have done no setup work yet on the two windows user accounts, except create them. So I could also delete the Bill account (with the Bill_2 folders) and recreate that one as Bill? I have already installed a number of programs and don't really want to have to reinstall them all. Hopefully this wouldn't happen as the "default admin" account would then reappear on the logon screen and I could use it to create the new Admin account? I've already spent too much time setting this machine up, so want a nice quick easy solution but one that will keep the machine neat and tidy! (and if I can have the moon too...) Many thanks. -- Robert - XP Professional, Dell Dimension 4400 |
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Names and directories related to User Accounts on XP Pro
As you've rightly observed, you cannot properly rename an account once it has
been logged-on to and the userprofile folder thus created. To correct this you need to (As another admin-privelege user) delete the account completely and make sure that any userprofile folder is also deleted or renamed out of the way, so it won't interfere with the creation of a new account. You then need to re-create the account and log-on once as the new user. (whoch action creates the profile folder) Beware that if the profile folder already exists, re-creating the user will result in a profile folder named Bill.Computername instead of Bill. "Robert M Jones" wrote: Just setting up a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop with XP Professional, with the default Admin account Default Admin, one newly created Admin account Myname Admin, and two further limited privilege user accounts - Bill and Ben. guest account is off. During the Setup process I managed to make a mistake in naming the Myname Admin and gave it a name I wanted to use for one of the user accounts by mistake. I then changed the name in the installed Windows "User Accounts" interface to Myname Admin and that was reflected in the logon screen. However I see that the various folder names reflect the original name given during Setup, so that I now have a set of user folders under Documents and Settings - "Bill" (which relates to Myname Admin) and "Bill_2" which relates to Bill - the user account. And Ben - but that is fine. I noticed it when I was about to set up OpenOffice and it was selecting its document folder and it wasn't called what I was expecting. I aborted the Open Office setup at that point. I would like to know if there is an easy way to rename those folders (relating to Myname Admin, but called Bill) globally or whether I should just delete the Myname Admin account and then create another one? I have done no setup work yet on the two windows user accounts, except create them. So I could also delete the Bill account (with the Bill_2 folders) and recreate that one as Bill? I have already installed a number of programs and don't really want to have to reinstall them all. Hopefully this wouldn't happen as the "default admin" account would then reappear on the logon screen and I could use it to create the new Admin account? I've already spent too much time setting this machine up, so want a nice quick easy solution but one that will keep the machine neat and tidy! (and if I can have the moon too...) Many thanks. -- Robert - XP Professional, Dell Dimension 4400 |
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Names and directories related to User Accounts on XP Pro
Anteaus wrote:
As you've rightly observed, you cannot properly rename an account once it has been logged-on to and the userprofile folder thus created. To correct this you need to (As another admin-privelege user) delete the account completely and make sure that any userprofile folder is also deleted or renamed out of the way, so it won't interfere with the creation of a new account. You then need to re-create the account and log-on once as the new user. (whoch action creates the profile folder) Beware that if the profile folder already exists, re-creating the user will result in a profile folder named Bill.Computername instead of Bill. "Robert M Jones" wrote: Just setting up a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop with XP Professional, with the default Admin account Default Admin, one newly created Admin account Myname Admin, and two further limited privilege user accounts - Bill and Ben. guest account is off. During the Setup process I managed to make a mistake in naming the Myname Admin and gave it a name I wanted to use for one of the user accounts by mistake. I then changed the name in the installed Windows "User Accounts" interface to Myname Admin and that was reflected in the logon screen. However I see that the various folder names reflect the original name given during Setup, so that I now have a set of user folders under Documents and Settings - "Bill" (which relates to Myname Admin) and "Bill_2" which relates to Bill - the user account. And Ben - but that is fine. I noticed it when I was about to set up OpenOffice and it was selecting its document folder and it wasn't called what I was expecting. I aborted the Open Office setup at that point. I would like to know if there is an easy way to rename those folders (relating to Myname Admin, but called Bill) globally or whether I should just delete the Myname Admin account and then create another one? I have done no setup work yet on the two windows user accounts, except create them. So I could also delete the Bill account (with the Bill_2 folders) and recreate that one as Bill? I have already installed a number of programs and don't really want to have to reinstall them all. Hopefully this wouldn't happen as the "default admin" account would then reappear on the logon screen and I could use it to create the new Admin account? I've already spent too much time setting this machine up, so want a nice quick easy solution but one that will keep the machine neat and tidy! (and if I can have the moon too...) Many thanks. -- Robert - XP Professional, Dell Dimension 4400 Thanks. That all seems to have worked. I couldn't find the new folder, but as you say, a logoff/logon created it. Bill and Ben the flowerpot men are now all in their places, and Weed is now suitably placed as the administrator. ;-) -- Robert |
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