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Change Folder name for C:/Users/account_name
ragingpegger wrote:
Hi, I have the exact same problem as Dave. And that problem would be? Is there any follow up to this? We don't know; you haven't told us what you're talking about. You need to quote the relevant portion of the thread to which you reply so that there'll be a bit of meaningful context. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot |
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Change Folder name for C:/Users/account_name
Hi,
I resolved this in the following way: Starting from where my previous email left off: Acc name: Admin / Store folder: Dave / Acc type: Admin Acc name: Dave / Strore folder: Dave_2 / Acc type: Standard 1) Delete account Dave (make sure there is nothing here you want to keep) 2) Rename Admin back to Dave We now have: Acc name: Dave / Store folder: Dave / Acc type: Admin 3) Create new Admin account We now have: Acc name: Dave / Store folder: Dave / Acc type: Admin Acc name: Admin / Store folder: Admin/ Acc type: Admin 4) Finally set Dave to be a standard user account End result: Acc name: Dave / Store folder: Dave / Acc type: Standard Acc name: Admin / Store folder: Admin / Acc type: Admin "ragingpegger" wrote: Hi, I have the exact same problem as Dave. Is there any follow up to this? It's a major nuisance, and I'm far from a computer guru, so I'm looking for a reasonably simple solution. Thanks all. -- ragingpegger |
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New (to Me) Machine wanted to " Change Folder name for C:/Users/account_name"
Greetings and salutations
Way back when (2007) "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:52:24 +0200 typed in microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_acco unts_passwords the following: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:16:00 -0800, Gary McCready Gary Hello: I set up my computer with account name "Cyndi", and then changed it to "Gary" The C:/Users/Cyndi Folder did not get renamed. It won't, no. I have tried to rename this folder ... You're about to dig a large hole that won't be fun to climb out of - this road leads to duplicate account stores, mangled names such as Cyndi.^%4765, user accounts that don't load, etc. BT,DT in XP :-) If you understand the background to this, it may be easier to accept. When a user account is created, a unique identifier is assigned to it that can never be changed. At the time the account is created, the account subtree name is bound to that ID. When you change the name of an existing account via Control Panel, Users, you map a new name to the same invariant ID. But by now, many applications will have cast their own data paths in stone, using the existing user account subtree name, so that cannot be renamed. So what you see is the new name when looking at the namespace level of abstraction - Control Panel, Users, or the Welcome screen, or other login contexts, and the general desktop UI - but when you drop to the raw file system, you see the old user name embedded in the account's storage path. If you drop down further, you don't see user names at all, only the raw ID that was assigned when the account was made. If you create an account with the same user name, as can happen in XP but may be prudently blocked in Vista, the reverse happens. You have what appears to be the same name, but a different unique ID is spawned, and a new account subtree is spawned that is bound to it. Normally, this subtree is named to match the user name that was chosen when the account was created, but if that name already exists at the file system level, a variant has to be used; usually that means some gibberish is appended after a . in the name. Crude attempts to bang these things together, e.g. renaming file system directories in an attempt to get account A to work with account B's data set, can be exopected to fail - if the OS's user security is doing its thing. You can see why that would be necessary. This is quite helpful, this may actually be what I need to do. But before I do anything "radical" let me check my understanding. I can rename the account "owner" all I want, but the directory tree will retain "owner" in some form of the name. So I can create a new Account - "Fooo" - and give it all the permissions and such of "owner". Transfer all the files in Owner's "Documents" (What was known in XP as "My Documents") to "Fooo\Documents" - an then be able to delete the account Owner? Program files and such do not need to be touched, they should be all right? Oh, details, a second hand Toshiba Laptop L305-s5942, WIndows Vista Premium. Bought it at a store, and am in the midst of getting rid of the crap, and putting the programs on it I use. - pyotr filipivich. as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." |
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New (to Me) Machine wanted to " Change Folder name for C:/Users/account_name"
Greetings and salutations
Way back when (2007) "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:52:24 +0200 typed in microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_acco unts_passwords the following: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:16:00 -0800, Gary McCready Gary Hello: I set up my computer with account name "Cyndi", and then changed it to "Gary" The C:/Users/Cyndi Folder did not get renamed. It won't, no. I have tried to rename this folder ... You're about to dig a large hole that won't be fun to climb out of - this road leads to duplicate account stores, mangled names such as Cyndi.^%4765, user accounts that don't load, etc. BT,DT in XP :-) If you understand the background to this, it may be easier to accept. When a user account is created, a unique identifier is assigned to it that can never be changed. At the time the account is created, the account subtree name is bound to that ID. When you change the name of an existing account via Control Panel, Users, you map a new name to the same invariant ID. But by now, many applications will have cast their own data paths in stone, using the existing user account subtree name, so that cannot be renamed. So what you see is the new name when looking at the namespace level of abstraction - Control Panel, Users, or the Welcome screen, or other login contexts, and the general desktop UI - but when you drop to the raw file system, you see the old user name embedded in the account's storage path. If you drop down further, you don't see user names at all, only the raw ID that was assigned when the account was made. If you create an account with the same user name, as can happen in XP but may be prudently blocked in Vista, the reverse happens. You have what appears to be the same name, but a different unique ID is spawned, and a new account subtree is spawned that is bound to it. Normally, this subtree is named to match the user name that was chosen when the account was created, but if that name already exists at the file system level, a variant has to be used; usually that means some gibberish is appended after a . in the name. Crude attempts to bang these things together, e.g. renaming file system directories in an attempt to get account A to work with account B's data set, can be exopected to fail - if the OS's user security is doing its thing. You can see why that would be necessary. This is quite helpful, this may actually be what I need to do. But before I do anything "radical" let me check my understanding. I can rename the account "owner" all I want, but the directory tree will retain "owner" in some form of the name. So I can create a new Account - "Fooo" - and give it all the permissions and such of "owner". Transfer all the files in Owner's "Documents" (What was known in XP as "My Documents") to "Fooo\Documents" - an then be able to delete the account Owner? Program files and such do not need to be touched, they should be all right? Oh, details, a second hand Toshiba Laptop L305-s5942, WIndows Vista Premium. Bought it at a store, and am in the midst of getting rid of the crap, and putting the programs on it I use. - pyotr filipivich. as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." |
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