user profile, changing folder name

[Guest]

Hi ther

My father got me a Toshiba Satellite A15-S127 from the US for a birthday gift last year. It came with Windows XP Home Edition. When he purchased it my the user name was 23456, and the user profile folder name in Docs and Settings Folder is 567898. This is very annoying and i want to change it.

I read the articles about starting up in Safe Mode, logging on as Admin and taking ownership, then logging back on as a different user, and copying this folder(567898) to a new profile folder, but every time i paste it say can't paste USER DATA folder because acess is denied, and also i get another message saying files are in use??? Any help out there

Thank

Peter

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You can't change the original user. But you can create a new one and copy
over the profile.

Boot to Safe mode, logon as administrator. Go to the Control Panel/User and
create a new account with a name you want. Then, go to the system applet,
and on the advanced tab click on User Profile settings. Select your old
profile, click 'copy to' and then your new profile.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Hi there

My father got me a Toshiba Satellite A15-S127 from the US for a birthday

gift last year. It came with Windows XP Home Edition. When he purchased it
my the user name was 23456, and the user profile folder name in Docs and
Settings Folder is 567898. This is very annoying and i want to change it.

I read the articles about starting up in Safe Mode, logging on as Admin

and taking ownership, then logging back on as a different user, and copying
this folder(567898) to a new profile folder, but every time i paste it say
can't paste USER DATA folder because acess is denied, and also i get
another message saying files are in use??? Any help out there?