Changing folder name in "Douments&Settings"

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Aiden

New machine and new to XP - have noticed that the supplier of new m/c
has used our very distinctive surname to name the system folder under
Documents and Settings when installing XP Home.

Can we change this as it seems to be appearing in a lot of situations
- is it possible that this might be transmitted out onto the internet
via emails etc. or web surfing - will we get "personally addressed"
spam as a result?

Tried "rename" but of course it says it cannot be done as it is a
System folder"

Any advice much appreciated.
 
Aiden said:
New machine and new to XP - have noticed that the supplier of new m/c
has used our very distinctive surname to name the system folder under
Documents and Settings when installing XP Home.

Can we change this as it seems to be appearing in a lot of situations
- is it possible that this might be transmitted out onto the internet
via emails etc. or web surfing - will we get "personally addressed"
spam as a result?

Tried "rename" but of course it says it cannot be done as it is a
System folder"

Any advice much appreciated.
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Leave it alone.
The only information pushed to the internet on a well configured/maintained
and immunized PC is what you push out yourself.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

--
I still love the one request I got a couple of years back..

Customer: "Can you misspell my name on my email address? That way I will
get less spam."
Me: "But.. you will be using that email address for everything?"
Customer: "Yes."
Me: *blank stare*
Customer: "That will work, right?"
--
 
Leave it alone.
The only information pushed to the internet on a well configured/maintained
and immunized PC is what you push out yourself.
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.... take your point, but.....

....as the system's new and clean, so not too cluttered up yet - if I
re-installed XP with the installation disk that came with it, will I
be able to rename it then - or has Microsoft now got this "written in
stone" from the first registration?
 
Hi,

You would have to do a clean installation. A user profile folder under D&S
is permanently named, though you can rename the account itself. As long as
that account is used, you would not be able to rename or remove it. A
simpler solution would be to create a new user and copy the data into it,
then disable and remove the surname user account.

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Note that one step not listed in the article is that after creating the
destination profile you must log into it once first to create the necessary
file structure before you do the copy procedure.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hi,

You would have to do a clean installation. A user profile folder under D&S
is permanently named, though you can rename the account itself. As long as
that account is used, you would not be able to rename or remove it. A
simpler solution would be to create a new user and copy the data into it,
then disable and remove the surname user account.

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Note that one step not listed in the article is that after creating the
destination profile you must log into it once first to create the necessary
file structure before you do the copy procedure.
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Thanks Nutter, sorry, Rick -- so if I understand you ( & Microsoft)
correctly, what I will be doing in effect is creating a new user name,
(never done that yet) - two in fact called, say, A & B. I will have
to work from A (according to the link) to copy from the "wrong",
("Surname") one to the "new" one, B, right?

So having created the structure in B (how?) and, working from A,
copied everything to B, how does one then "disable and remove the user
account" - "Surname"?

Sorry to seem so dim - but 10years of W95/98 will be hard to break
away from - especially when you're my age! Just 24hours into XP and
having to go back to basics - it's not fair.

But really appreciate your help - sounds as if we might be onto
something here.
 
Hi,

Close. You must copy from outside of either profile when copying. You do
this by logging in as administrator after creating and logging into "B" to
create the folder structure.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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