XP USER QUESTION

[wei]

XP SP3 -
I temporarily created a user named YOU. Then I went to Control
Panel>Users and change the user name to ME. That was yesterday.
Today I booted up as ME, and downloaded some things from the web.
They went to Documents and Settings>YOU>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
I expected them at Documents and Settings>ME>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
What didn't I do right? IE, why am I working under YOU and not ME?
In fact - why does folder YOU still exist anyway?
Anyone?
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Wei

 

[Char Jackson]

XP SP3 -
I temporarily created a user named YOU. Then I went to Control
Panel>Users and change the user name to ME. That was yesterday.
Today I booted up as ME, and downloaded some things from the web.
They went to Documents and Settings>YOU>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
I expected them at Documents and Settings>ME>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
What didn't I do right? IE, why am I working under YOU and not ME?
In fact - why does folder YOU still exist anyway?

You can change the name of the account as often as you wish, but the
file structure on the disk doesn't change. That's by design.

If you really want the file structure to be a certain way, you have to
create an account with the desired name rather than create an account
with the wrong name and then rename it.

 

[wei]

To add to that...
Accounts are based upon a Security Identifier (SID) and the name can change
but the SID stays the same and thus will use the same profile.

Ok

Surprised, but ok

Wei