[HELP]: How to change the USERNAME as well the target users'sdirectory

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi

I need to change my user name from "FOO BAR" to "FOOBAR" (I have to remove
the space for security reason). How can I do this change??? (warning, the
change should be effective also when getting the USERNAME as an
environnement variable and how could I change also the directory name???

Thanks in advance

FA

 

[Joe Sanchez]

Hi Andre,
Go to Control-Panel User Accounts- Select your user account- Clect "Change
my name"

 

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi Joe

This is not changing my USERNAME...it is changing only the LOGON NAME which
is quite different...

FA

 

[Bill]

I'm not sure about changing any environment variables but tweakui is your
best bet for changing your user's target directory. I hope this info helps
anyways...click start>run type in "control userpasswords2" without the
quotes, click the user you wish to change on the users tab,click properties
and make your changes on the users tab. You can make additional changes to
your users by clicking the advanced tab in the last box you were working in
and clicking advanced under advanced user management. HTH

 

[Malke]

I'm not sure about changing any environment variables but tweakui is
your best bet for changing your user's target directory. I hope this
info helps anyways...click start>run type in "control userpasswords2"
without the quotes, click the user you wish to change on the users
tab,click properties and make your changes on the users tab. You can
make additional changes to your users by clicking the advanced tab in
the last box you were working in and clicking advanced under advanced
user management. HTH

You will need to make an entirely new user "foobar" or whatever. Copy
over all the data you need from the original account. You may need to
take ownership of these files. Then you can get rid of "foo bar".

Malke

 

[Sharon F]

Hi Joe

This is not changing my USERNAME...it is changing only the LOGON NAME which
is quite different...

FA

Create a new account with the name that you want. Log on to it once so that
its folders are created. Then use System Properties> Advanced> Users to
copy the account information from the old account to the new.

NOTE: To accomplish this you must be logged on with an administrative
account and it cannot be the old account or the new account. If necessary,
create a temporary admin account for this purpose.