Had a computer shop rebuild MY WIFE's computer...

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Rod Davies

Due to HDD failure.

THEY rebuilt it under the name of RoB Davies, NOT even my name of RoD
Davies, and in any event it should have been under my wife's name. So I am
apparently the defualt user.

I created an Admin user under wife's name of Lenore, added a Folder under
her name in the Users Folder, but can I delete the ROB Davies User??? There
are the folders under RoB Davies of Contacts, Music, Pictures, Downoads,
Videos, Searches etc. Even though I copied all these folders to my Wifes
User Folder, and despite there being nothiing in any of these folders as its
a brand new built PC, RoB Davies User folders are over 1GB in size, and my
wifes about 20KB in total, so there are hidden system files in my
incorrectly 'built' user folder...right? But Can I delete the Rob Davies
folder??

Vista Home Premiuim...sorry for few spelling mistakes, in rush!

Tks
Rod
 
Tks...I'll have a read thru this and the other areas and see if/what to
do...at least you have pointed me in the right direction!!!

Rgds
Rod
 
....sorry, should have mentioned...there is NO reference to a User Account
under Rod (or RoB !) Davies in Control Panel's User Accounts area,,,

just the FOLDER under C:\Users|RoB Davies - THATS the folder I want to
delete so it does not list as a USER in C:|Users - but the folder in
C:\Users\RoB Davies containing Saved Searches/Videos/Pictures etc which are
NIL...it is a fresh PC that she is using....but C:\Users\Lenore has the same
Folders (Search, Pictures etc) again empty but about 1GB less in size than
the 'empty' C:\Users\RoB Davies !!!

Rgds
Rod
 
I created an Admin user under wife's name of Lenore, added a Folder under
her name in the Users Folder, but can I delete the ROB Davies User???
There are the folders under RoB Davies of Contacts, Music, Pictures,
Downoads, Videos, Searches etc. Even though I copied all these folders to
my Wifes User Folder, and despite there being nothiing in any of these
folders as its a brand new built PC, RoB Davies User folders are over 1GB
in size, and my wifes about 20KB in total, so there are hidden system
files in my incorrectly 'built' user folder...right? But Can I delete the
Rob Davies folder??
Click to expand...

Log on as Lenore, then take ownership of the RoD user folder. Give full
access to Lenore. You'll be able to delete the folder then.

Tom Lake
 
Tks Tom!

Rgds
Rod
Tom Lake said:
Log on as Lenore, then take ownership of the RoD user folder. Give full
access to Lenore. You'll be able to delete the folder then.

Tom Lake
Click to expand...
 
Rod Davies said:
Due to HDD failure.

THEY rebuilt it under the name of RoB Davies, NOT even my name of RoD
Davies, and in any event it should have been under my wife's name. So I am
apparently the defualt user.

I created an Admin user under wife's name of Lenore, added a Folder under
her name in the Users Folder,
Click to expand...

The folder should have been automatically added by the system upon creation
of the new user identity. It *needs* to be created by the OS.
but can I delete the ROB Davies User???
Click to expand...

I would probably just re-load the OS again to keep things straight.
are the folders under RoB Davies of Contacts, Music, Pictures, Downoads,
Videos, Searches etc. Even though I copied all these folders to my Wifes
User Folder,
Click to expand...

There's a chance that these 'creations' will not register themselves properly,
and in the event you use system tools to migrate at a later date they may not
be recognized.

By trashing system folders from the directory tree rather than allowing the OS
and / or the registry to compile or delete, you may be creating a bug that will
hang with you until the OS is properly loaded.

Perhaps a real pro can address this concern.

DM
 
Hi,

Many Tks to all who have responded and helped me in this. It's
infuriating...

To recap, I had a computer shop rebuild my wifes computer. They built it
under the name RoB Davies...my name is RoD Davies. It should have been under
her name, Lenore Davies. To "fix" this error, I added a User in Control
Panel/User Accounts under the name Lenore and gave her admin rights and
Deleted the User in Control Panle\User Accounts of Rob Davies... or I
THOUGHT I HAD... I then had to MANUALLY ADD the User "Lenore" to C:\Users

However, in C:\Users there is STILL RoB Davies with all folders (music,
saved searches etc) of about 1gb in size and a User Lenore, same folders
(music et al) of about 40KB. I have done some checking and all the Registry
Keys are under Rob Davies.

THINKING BACK, perhaps instead of ADDING a User in Control Panel under
Lenore, maybe I CHANGED the name of the Account from Rob Davies to Lenore.
If I did, perhaps Vista H/Premium DOES NOT amend the C:\User (name) , it
leaves the C:\User as RoB Davies...if you get my drift. Which is why I had
to manually add a Lenore to C:\Users???

Is that possible? And what would therefore happen if I:

1. MANUALLY Deleted the C:\User\Lenore that I manually added.
2. Went to Control Panel\User Accounts and Added another User, say LDavies
with admin rights (which WOULD have VISTA create the User in C:\Users as
C:\Users\LDavies)
3. RENAME the account in Control Panel\User Accounts presently named Lenore
BACK to RoB Davies and then
4. DELETE the User RoB Davies in Control Panel\User Accounts which then
might Delete the User in C:\Users\Rob Davies

Any thoughts on this?

Rgds again
Rod
 
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