Username rejected during setup

[Andrew Mitchell]

Hi guys.
This is not a huge problem, but one that piqued my interest.

Today I installed WinXP on my brother-in-laws PC. Immediately following the
installation, during the "Lets take a few minutes setting up your
computer" phase, I was prompted to enter the names of all the people who
are going to be using the PC (as normally occurs).
I entered their names then clicked the "next" button and received an error.
I don't have the exact wording but it was something to the effect of "User
names cannot be 'Administrator', 'John' or contain the characters $,
#,%..etc."
I can understand Adminstrator being rejected (it already exists at this
point) but it appears that the name 'John' was rejected, but later accepted
when I went into the User applet in Control Panel and added it there. I
have done literally hundreds of installs of XP and never seen this before.
I tried another install on a virtual machine (from the same installation
disc) and cannot reporoduce the error. Searching the web and usenet also
came up empty.

Has anyone else seen this before and, if so, what combination of events
makes it occur?

Thanks
Andy.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Error Message: The User Name May Not Be the Same as the Computer Name...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310845&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Andrew Mitchell" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message:

| Hi guys.
| This is not a huge problem, but one that piqued my interest.
|
| Today I installed WinXP on my brother-in-laws PC. Immediately following the
| installation, during the "Lets take a few minutes setting up your
| computer" phase, I was prompted to enter the names of all the people who
| are going to be using the PC (as normally occurs).
| I entered their names then clicked the "next" button and received an error.
| I don't have the exact wording but it was something to the effect of "User
| names cannot be 'Administrator', 'John' or contain the characters $,
| #,%..etc."
| I can understand Adminstrator being rejected (it already exists at this
| point) but it appears that the name 'John' was rejected, but later accepted
| when I went into the User applet in Control Panel and added it there. I
| have done literally hundreds of installs of XP and never seen this before.
| I tried another install on a virtual machine (from the same installation
| disc) and cannot reporoduce the error. Searching the web and usenet also
| came up empty.
|
| Has anyone else seen this before and, if so, what combination of events
| makes it occur?
|
| Thanks
| Andy.

 

[Carl]

what possessed you or your BiL to have YOU install XP...shoulda been by a
person who really knows what they are doing....take it to a local shop to
have it straightened out....

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

what possessed you or your BiL to have YOU install XP...shoulda been by a
person who really knows what they are doing....take it to a local shop to
have it straightened out....

You are an idiot. Please do something constructive. Suicide would be a good
start.