Administrator change

[Rex D Last]

I've inherited a Sony Vaio from my grandson. The system restore disk has
been used but I am unable to remove all references to him despite extensive
registry editing. For example, pressing ctrl/alt/del twice at the welcome
screen still brings up his name as does user profiles in system properties.
Sony 'help' simply suggested doing another system restore.

Can anyone suggest anything else I can do please?

 

[Juan Perez]

Hi Rex:

I am not sure how the restore disk work in the SONY, but it should wipe all
the information on your Hard Disk, and let you install the OS with your
name. Still any program installed from your grandson in the computer? It
asked to activate the again your copy of windows? It installed a new copy of
windows?

 

[Toast]

I've inherited a Sony Vaio from my grandson. The system restore
disk has been used but I am unable to remove all references to him
despite extensive registry editing. For example, pressing
ctrl/alt/del twice at the welcome screen still brings up his name
as does user profiles in system properties. Sony 'help' simply
suggested doing another system restore.

Can anyone suggest anything else I can do please?

Don’t understand why using the system restore disk does not return
computer to factory default settings. Sounds odd.

If the rest of the system is clear of it’s former history and you
just want to change the name of a user/administrator then you can try
this...

Start > Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > System
Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users.

Hopefully you’ll see your grandson’s name in the list. Right click on
the user ID you want to alter. Select Rename, and away you go.

David

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I've inherited a Sony Vaio from my grandson. The system restore disk has
been used but I am unable to remove all references to him despite
extensive registry editing. For example, pressing ctrl/alt/del twice at
the welcome screen still brings up his name as does user profiles in
system properties. Sony 'help' simply suggested doing another system
restore.

Can anyone suggest anything else I can do please?

Run through the restore again. It may well offer more than one method of
restoring - a non-destructive one that leaves user accounts and
applications, which is what you seem to have used, and a destructive one,
which starts with a format. This will remove all data from the system, so
back up whatever you've done so far. Other apps that aren't included on
the restore CD will have to be re-installed, too.

Alternately, create a new Administrator level account for yourself, log into
it, and then go to Control Panel, Users, and delete the old account.
You'll be asked if you want to delete the files and folders for that
account - say yes, as long as you have recovered anything you wanted to
keep.

HTH
-pk

 

[Rex D Last]

Thanks for the advice - I should have mentioned that the OS is XP Pro.
David's suggestion finally did the trick and got rid of 'David' as it
happens! I'm still surprised that extensive Registry editing, search and
replace didn't do the trick.

Thanks again,