KRK said:
Hello,
I don't know how this happened, but I have different names for my user
(logon) account name, and the folder name with my files in (in 'Users')
Everything seems to work OK,
Do I need to worry about it. ?
Can I just change the name in 'Users' to match the logon name ?
I am the only user of my pc and am the 'administrator'
I have home premium
At some point you must have renamed the original user account (probably a
generic "owner" or "HP Administrator" or the like) to a more personal
name.
As you have discovered, you cannot change a user account by just changing
the name. Just changing the name will make a cosmetic change only and not
affect the underlying files/folders in the profile.
It is completely your choice whether you wish to leave things as they are.
If you wanted to change the situation, you would need to name the account
back to the original, create a new correctly named account, and copy the
old account to the new one while logged into a third, different
Administrative account. This may be more work than you want to do. Let me
know if you want the details, however.
But you really should not 1) be running as an Administrator for your daily
work; and 2) have only the one Administrative account on the system.
General recommendations for setting up users in Vista:
You absolutely do not want to have only one user account. Like XP and all
other modern operating systems, Vista is a multi-user operating system
with
built-in system accounts such as Administrator, Default, All Users, and
Guest. These accounts should be left alone as they are part of the
operating system structure.
You particularly don't want only one user account with administrative
privileges on Vista because the built-in Administrator account (normally
only used in emergencies) is disabled by default. If you're running as
Administrator for your daily work and that account gets corrupted, things
will be Difficult. It isn't impossible to activate the built-in
Administrator to rescue things, but it will require third-party tools and
working outside the operating system.
The user account that is for your daily work should be a Standard user,
with
the extra administrative user (call it something like "CompAdmin" or
"Tech"
or the like) only there for elevation purposes. After you create
"CompAdmin", log into it and change your regular user account to Standard.
Then log back into your regular account.
If you want to go directly to the Desktop and skip the Welcome Screen with
the icons of user accounts, you can do this:
Start Orb>Search box>type: netplwiz [enter]
Click on Continue (or supply an administrator's password) when prompted by
UAC
Uncheck the option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer". Select a user account to automatically log on by clicking on
the
desired account to highlight it and then hit OK. Enter the correct
password
for that user account (if there is one) when prompted. Leave it blank if
there is no password (null).
Malke
