Thanks,

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

"The user profile folders (C:\Users\UserName) are protected
system files and, once created, *cannot* be renamed, even if
the associated user logon account has been renamed. This
means that ... "

OK, I'm beginning to understand - I think. When an account
is first created, whether as an administrator or user
account, it is given a "birth name" which remains forever in
the system bowels/archives, even if the "working name" is
changed several times, and whatever the administrator/user
assignment happens to be at any particular time. Any
attempts later to modify files or programs associated with
an account cannot be reliably found using the "working
name" - one would have to know and use the "birth name."

Am I close?

Again, many thanks.

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CWLee wrote:

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

"Here's where you lose me. Why go through all these
contortions with renaming accounts? There's no point,
... "

Thanks for your advice and information. It is good to
get a lengthy, thought-out, on target reply.

The end result I'd like is to log onto a (USER) account
with the name AAA that has the current personalizations
that my current AAA (ADMINISTRATOR) account has. I'm
the only person who uses this account,
but I'm trying to get the increased security you mention
while at the same time keeping the current
personalizations I have on my Administrator account. (I
know I could just re-configure my User account to match
those personalizations, but that is a LOT of effort, and
some of it I don't even remember how I did nearly 18
months ago. Things like getting ride of icons for the
Recycle Bin, and changing icons on programs that want to
keep their own logo-icons, etc.)



Changing the AAA Account from an administrative account to
a limited account won't change any of those
"personalizations."


I appreciate your attention and insights, and if you have
other ways to achieve my goal I'd appreciate it.


Simply change the permissions levels of the two accounts,
as you'd already planned. None of the customizations or
"personalizations" of either account will be affected.


As a practical matter to me, I don't fully understand the
implications of "the user profile folders will *NOT* be
renamed when you do this, so you'll end up with AAA's
account settings, portion of the registry, and data files
stored where they originally were, in the user profile
labeled BBB, and BBB's files and settings stored in the
user profile AAA. At some point down the road, this is
bound to lead to some confusion."


The user profile folders (C:\Users\UserName) are protected
system files and, once created, *cannot* be renamed, even
if the associated user logon account has been renamed.

This means that if you rename account AAA to BBB, its data
files, desktop icons, Internet Explorer favorites, etc.,
will all still be located under the C:\Users\AAA folder
hierarchy. (And BBB's files, favorites, etc., will be in
the C:\Users\BBB folder hierarchy even though the account
has been renamed to AAA. This would make it awfully easy
to mistakenly modify, move, copy or delete the wrong file
or folder when working with Windows Explorer.


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