change default administrator user name

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I have a new computer. The default administrator username is
HP_Administrator. How can I change that so everything doesn't identify me as
that? Just a normal change name doesn't work.

Thanks.
John
 
A said:
I have a new computer. The default administrator username is
HP_Administrator. How can I change that so everything doesn't identify
me as that? Just a normal change name doesn't work.

Thanks.
John
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Make a new user account for yourself. Go to the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel and create a new account. Once you've created the
account, log off and log into the new account. Set it up the way you
want.

Malke
 
that'd mean i have to do all the settings, etc. from scratch. not a happy
solution.

thanks anyway.
 
If you think THAT is "a not happy solution", just wait till your ONLY
administrator account (that you seem to be insisting on messing up) gets
corrupted! In no uncertain terms, MAKE A NEW ONE!
 
A said:
that'd mean i have to do all the settings, etc. from scratch. not a
happy solution.
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Well, since you didn't *say* that's what you wanted to do in your
*first* post, I didn't tell you how to copy a user account. So follow
these instructions how to copy a user account to the *new* account you
make. You must log into the new account once before you can copy
anything to it. The normal built-in Administrator account is just plain
"Administrator". Whether you've renamed it to "HP_Administrator" or
this account is the default *user* account is unclear and I'm not going
to guess. If that is the case and there are really only two accounts on
the system (Administrator and HP_Administrator), make another user
account - called "tech" or something like that - to use when you want
to copy the HP_Administrator account settings to the New Account. You
can always delete the "tech" account afterwards although it never hurts
to have an extra account on the system.

Copy a User Account -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=811151

Malke
 
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