User Name

[Jannie]

I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and the
only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a document,
instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".

How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

you can't do that so easily.
If you want to change your user name's folder in C:\Users, you have to set
up a new user account. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and
make a new account, copy all needed files from your old folder (\CCity\)
into that newly created folder.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Jannie]

Thank you so much for replying. I'm still having some problems
understanding. When I make a new user account (as I did), should I make it
Standard or Admin? I'm not understanding how to get to the newly created
folder in order to copy the files there. I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but
the only other computers I've had have been built for me and all this was
already in place.

 

[Jannie]

Thanks, Brink! I'll give it a go.

Hi Jannie,

You will need to create a new "Administrator" account with a username
you are wanting to change the C:\Users\(username)" folder to from within
your current Administrator account.

See:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93009-user-account-create.html


Now, logoff your old Administrator account and logon to the newly
created Administrator account. From within this account, delete your old
Administrator account.

See:
NOTE: When you get to frame 6 in this tutorial below, you will have the
option of saving all of the old Administrator's personal user folders to
a folder on the new Administrator accounts desktop. You can then just
copy them into the new user folders.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93026-user-account-delete.html


Hope this helps,
Shawn


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[Ernest Ben]

Ben Ernest,
I actually ran into the same situation today. I went into the registry to
change the user name to reflect the name of the user that is login.
Unfortunately for me the it return back to Ccity when I rebooted the system.
My fix to the scenario was to first of all, create another administrator
account, then deleted the Ccity account. When you delete the Ccity account,
you will be asked if you you want to keep your files or deleted them. Please
choose the keep your files options like that all of your files in the deleted
account will become a folder name after the user account that you just
deleted. You can login with the new administrator account and the recover
your old files.

I hope this help you!

 

[Jannie]

Well.....I made a new Admin account and deleted the old one (saving files).
I did a search for "Ccity" and nothing's changed. All the documents, music,
etc., is still under "Ccity" (after reboot). Also, I now have to go in and
change all my settings. Perhaps I did something wrong? Maybe I'm just tired
and should take this all up again tomorrow? *banging my head against the
wall*

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and the
only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a document,
instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".

How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

To fix the "Registered to" information for WinNT/2K/XP,Vista, you
can use Start > Run > Regedit.exe to edit:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\RegisteredOwner

and:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current
Version\RegisteredOrganization

How this will affect the name displayed in previously installed
applications will vary depending upon each individual program; some read
the registered owner information dynamically, while others read it only
during installation, and some require the information to be entered
manually (typed in) by the installing individual.

The user profile folders (C:\USERS\Username) _cannot_ be renamed,
without risky registry editing, even if the associated user account has
been. So, your best course of action would be to log on using the
built-in Administrator account, create a new user account, with the
username desired. Once you've logged in using this new account (and
transfered any data you need to preserve, you can then delete the old
user account(s).


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[Charlie]

Hello, I too have had similar User Account problems. In the process of
setting up my new PC exactly the way I wanted it, I created and deleted a
users account a couple of times. Each time I deleted and created this users
account I used his name "Tony". While deleting, I chose NOT to keep the
user's files since he did not need it.

The system is now setup the way I want it, 3 accounts shown at login and the
3 profiles listed in the advanced user profiles. Perfect! However, there are
now 3 separate "tony" folders listed under the c:\users\, "Tony", "Tony_2",
and "MyPC.Tony". The "MyPC.Tony" is the good account folder and the others
are leftover from my creating and deleting the other 2 "tony" accounts.
Deleting the user accounts and profiles did not delete these folders for some
reason. The problem is, even as admin, I can not delete these folders.

Can anyone help? I have Vista Ultimate. Thanks in advance,

Charlie