Changing User Name (System Wide) [XP Home]

mark4man · Dec 30, 2007, 10:19 AM

Hello...

Selling my old Dell 8250 to a friend; & as part of the file/folder cleanup & prep...I wanted to change the PC's User Name from mine to his.
I first went to User Accounts...changed it there...& it now reads as his name everywhere except under 'Documents & Settings'. So, I broke out the XP bible (Bott & Siechert) to find out how to get to the Administrator Account.

But Windows won't let me change it there.

So I tried to manually rename the affected folders under Documents & Settings...but Windows won't let me change it there either (claiming it's a system file).

Hoping there's a way to accomplish this...I don't want my name popping up on my friend's machine.

Thanks,

mark4man

***temeteus82*** · Dec 30, 2007, 10:35 AM

Hi there! I barely can read your post could you remove the colors from your first post in this thread?
That what you are trying to do is not possible unless you create totally new account and delete the old one.

***temeteus82*** · Dec 30, 2007, 10:40 AM

And I moved the thread to Windows XP / 2000 / NT / 9x Forum. Since we are talking about XP not Vista.

Judas · Dec 30, 2007, 11:56 AM

The only way... and easiest way.... that i'm familare with is to simply CREATE a new account with the name you wish.... move everything you want to keep over to the new account and then delete the old account..

It doesn't take that long to do at all...

kn00tcn · Jan 1, 2008, 10:16 PM

indeed, the only reason to keep the account is for any account only progs