How to change User name on startup?

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Neil Harrington

When I start this Win2000 system, of course it shows my name as "User." I am
the only one who's carried on it in that way. Since I'm giving the computer
to a friend, I'd like to change that to her name. Is there some way to do
that? And if not too involved a job, to change other iterations of my name
that may show up, to hers?

Many thanks again for the help. Thanks to you fellows the OS choice problem
is completely fixed.

Neil
 
Hello Neil,

Create a new useraccount with the administrator for her and delete your own
one when the time has come. Also i would delete your own account folder under
c:\documents and settings. For the accounts type compmgmt.msc in the run
line and go to "Local users and groups", under Users you should find the
Administrator and your useraccount. Also check the membership of the account
from your's and the new one for her.

Do not forget to give her the administrator accounts password.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Since you're giving it away I'd clean install the machine.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive
controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later
you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver
for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx


Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en
and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-067.mspx


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
Dave, a clean install is what I usually do when giving away a computer. In
this case however I hadn't really used the computer that much, mostly just
for my experiment with dual booting and then reverting to single boot, and
assorted playing around with it. I get a kick out of building computers,
just as a hobby, and so always have a surplus of them, and some of them such
as the subject machine see very little actual use.

It has never been online, so I have no worries about viruses or Internet
junk cluttering it up. If I'd known about the bother I was going to get into
removing the OS choice thing, etc., maybe I *would* have just done a clean
install (of course if I'd known what I was doing it wouldn't have been all
that bother), but anyway that's over now and I did learn something from it.
Doing it this way avoids having to reinstall drivers, etc., and there are a
number of programs I wanted to leave on it for my friend, e.g. a newer
version of Media Player, Adobe Reader and some other freeware that's useful
and/or fun. It's already updated to SP4. Removing my personal stuff and
other software took a bit longer than I expected, but again, that's done
now.

I am saving your post for future reference. Again, thanks very much.

Neil



Dave Patrick said:
Since you're giving it away I'd clean install the machine.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or
setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your
Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow
the prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent
drive controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers.
Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows
2000 driver for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms
of the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you
must then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are
deleted press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter
assignments with your new install) then restart the pc then when you get
to this point in setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then
press C to create a new partition and specify the size (if required).
Windows will by default use all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx


Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en
and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-067.mspx


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


Neil Harrington said:
When I start this Win2000 system, of course it shows my name as "User." I
am the only one who's carried on it in that way. Since I'm giving the
computer to a friend, I'd like to change that to her name. Is there some
way to do that? And if not too involved a job, to change other iterations
of my name that may show up, to hers?

Many thanks again for the help. Thanks to you fellows the OS choice
problem is completely fixed.

Neil
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