OT - Vista Question

The Vista newsgroups are pretty much silent, so...

I've got a Vista laptop, with Brian as the administrator, Guest is turned
off. I got locked out, and used the utilman.exe trick (changed cmd.exe
to utilman.exe, and went in through the Ease of Access button where I can
launch cmd.exe at start up) to get back in to to change the pw: C:
\windows\system32net user Brian newpw

I then changed the user name from Brian to Donald.

User account app showed two accounts, Donald as administrator, and Guest
turned off.

I wanted to change the pw once more, and I did C:\windows\system32net
user Donald newpw, but the system came back and gave me two users, the
old Brian as administrator, and the Guest turned off. So, I did C:
\windows\system32net user Brian newpw1, and it was successfully changed.
I restarted, and Donald came up as the user, and I logged in.

Question: Why after changeing user name from Brian to Donald, didn't
Donald come up as a net user when doing the C:\windows\system32net user
Brian newpw command, and I had to do C:\windows\system32net user Brian
newpw1 to change Donald's pw?

On 02/15/2016 05:48 PM, Boris wrote:
The Vista newsgroups are pretty much silent, so...

I've got a Vista laptop, with Brian as the administrator, Guest is turned
off. I got locked out, and used the utilman.exe trick (changed cmd.exe
to utilman.exe, and went in through the Ease of Access button where I can
launch cmd.exe at start up) to get back in to to change the pw: C:
\windows\system32net user Brian newpw

I then changed the user name from Brian to Donald.

User account app showed two accounts, Donald as administrator, and Guest
turned off.

I wanted to change the pw once more, and I did C:\windows\system32net
user Donald newpw, but the system came back and gave me two users, the
old Brian as administrator, and the Guest turned off. So, I did C:
\windows\system32net user Brian newpw1, and it was successfully changed.
I restarted, and Donald came up as the user, and I logged in.

Question: Why after changeing user name from Brian to Donald, didn't
Donald come up as a net user when doing the C:\windows\system32net user
Brian newpw command, and I had to do C:\windows\system32net user Brian
newpw1 to change Donald's pw?




Changing the name is merely a superficial convenience,

You need to create an entirely new account with administrative
privileges, then delete the account of the former user.

Assuming you picked the machine up used, I'd preform a factory restore,
there could be any number of unwanted items on the machine.

philo wrote in :

On 02/15/2016 05:48 PM, Boris wrote:
The Vista newsgroups are pretty much silent, so...

I've got a Vista laptop, with Brian as the administrator, Guest is
turned off. I got locked out, and used the utilman.exe trick
(changed cmd.exe to utilman.exe, and went in through the Ease of
Access button where I can launch cmd.exe at start up) to get back in
to to change the pw: C: \windows\system32net user Brian newpw

I then changed the user name from Brian to Donald.

User account app showed two accounts, Donald as administrator, and
Guest turned off.

I wanted to change the pw once more, and I did C:\windows\system32net
user Donald newpw, but the system came back and gave me two users,
the old Brian as administrator, and the Guest turned off. So, I did
C: \windows\system32net user Brian newpw1, and it was successfully
changed. I restarted, and Donald came up as the user, and I logged
in.

Question: Why after changeing user name from Brian to Donald, didn't
Donald come up as a net user when doing the C:\windows\system32net
user Brian newpw command, and I had to do C:\windows\system32net user
Brian newpw1 to change Donald's pw?




Changing the name is merely a superficial convenience,

That's sort of what I thought. Weird way of doing things, IMHO.

You need to create an entirely new account with administrative
privileges, then delete the account of the former user.

I see.

Assuming you picked the machine up used, I'd preform a factory
restore, there could be any number of unwanted items on the machine.

It was my dad's old machine. When I got it, I did a restore. But since
then, others have used it.

Thanks.

On 02/16/2016 11:17 AM, Boris wrote:


Changing the name is merely a superficial convenience,

That's sort of what I thought. Weird way of doing things, IMHO.



It's just any easy way to make the change, otherwise countless registry
entires would need to be made and things could go wrong.

You need to create an entirely new account with administrative
privileges, then delete the account of the former user.

I see.

Assuming you picked the machine up used, I'd preform a factory
restore, there could be any number of unwanted items on the machine.

It was my dad's old machine. When I got it, I did a restore. But since
then, others have used it.


If the people who used it were trustworthy friends, you should be OK.

If you create a fresh account and delete all the data in the old one,
you'd be better off though

Thanks.




Sure thing