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[Windows Vista Home Premium]

HP repaired my desktop and sent it back with a re-installed Windows.

The named the owner of the pc HP.
I changed this to my own name, say XXX.
I made a user's account for XXX.

In Windows Explorer my user XXX does not show up. User HP does, and it
has all my documents. I don't want the path to all my stuff to go like
"C:\Users\HP\Documents" , I want it to be "C:\Users\XXX\Documents".

When I go to user account through Control Panel > User accounts the
user HP is *not* shown, user XXX *is shown*. User HP is not visible
either if I go to "manage other accounts" .

Can someone help me to oust HP and put user XXX in charge of my
documents?

Thanks.
 
Hi,

Logoff the current account and log into user XXX account. If there is no
option to, then what you did was rename the HP account to XXX. This will not
change the user folder name (ie: Users\HP), but rather only the friendly
name. To have Users\XXX, you must create a new account with that name and
then log into it to create the user folder structures. The folders are not
created until the logon event occurs.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Rick Rogers schreef op 17/08/2009
Logoff the current account and log into user XXX account. If
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Thank you.

I am logged in as XXX. I cannot even log in as "HP".
 
Rick Rogers schreef op 17/08/2009
If there is no option to, then what you did was rename the HP account to XXX.
This will not change the user folder name (ie: Users\HP), but rather only the
friendly name.
Click to expand...

That is what I must have done. I suppose I could not log on as HP because I
changed the name.

Never mind, all my programs seem to be there.

But How do I get my documents etc. back?

Thank you very much.
 
A.Translator schreef op 17/08/2009
[Windows Vista Home Premium]
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HP repaired my desktop and sent it back with a re-installed Windows.
Click to expand...
The named the owner of the pc HP.
I changed this to my own name, say XXX.
I made a user's account for XXX.
Click to expand...
In Windows Explorer my user XXX does not show up. User HP does, and it has
all my documents. I don't want the path to all my stuff to go like
"C:\Users\HP\Documents" , I want it to be "C:\Users\XXX\Documents".
Click to expand...
When I go to user account through Control Panel > User accounts the user HP
is *not* shown, user XXX *is shown*. User HP is not visible either if I go to
"manage other accounts" .
Click to expand...
Can someone help me to oust HP and put user XXX in charge of my documents?
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Thanks.
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I figured it out, I think. You need to copy your docs to another disk
accessible both by HP and XXX. And then import them.

Thanks! It is a small thing, but I am happy to have HP gone from my path.
 
Hi,

Copy them from the HP account (you may need to alter permissions to do
this).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

A.Translator said:
Rick Rogers schreef op 17/08/2009
If there is no option to, then what you did was rename the HP account to
XXX. This will not change the user folder name (ie: Users\HP), but rather
only the friendly name.
Click to expand...

That is what I must have done. I suppose I could not log on as HP because
I changed the name.

Never mind, all my programs seem to be there.

But How do I get my documents etc. back?

Thank you very much.

--
Groet,
Adriana
[ gooi de vuilnis weg als je me wilt mailen ]
www.spinsister.nl
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