The correct way really is to immediately abandon the Owner profile as
soon as Windows XP is installed and to create a new one with your
desired name.
The other way is to modify your ProfileImagePath value at your SID:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-.....
To change the name of your Documents and Settings\UserName folder:
1- Log on to your account and use the SET USERPROFILE command to
positively identify your profile folder.
2- Log off your account and log on with another account with
administrative privileges.
3- Rename your user profile folder as you want it.
4- Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
5- Find the SID key that holds the ProfileImagePath which points to
the old %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Owner path and modify
the value to reflect the change that you made to the folder name. The
SID is the long series of numbers like:
S-1-5-21-1060343844-4005415036-....
so find the SID with the ProfileImagePath pointing to:
%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Owner
and change the value so that it points to the now newly renamed
folder:
%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Daave
6- Changing the name of your profile folder is not a recommended
procedure because there may (almost certainly will) be other hard
links in the registry that will point to the old profile folder name.
Again
using Regedit do a search for the old folder name and replace them
with the new folder name, as you did above with the ProfileImagePath.
So you will search for "Documents and Settings\Owner" and replace
every instance with "Documents and Settings\Daave", this should ensure
that
you don't run into problems with hard links to the old profile folder
name.
See here for more information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843
An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the
Documents and Settings folder
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm
How to rename or move a User Profile folder?
John