I can't change User Folder name

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I just recently bought a notebook with Vista Home premium. My friend was the
one who installed the OS and typed her name. I know I can change the
administrator name through the control panel. However, when I try renaming
the user folder it tells me that I do not have permission to do it. Please
help me how I can change it to my name.

Thanks!
 
r3nr3w said:
I just recently bought a notebook with Vista Home premium. My friend was the
one who installed the OS and typed her name. I know I can change the
administrator name through the control panel. However, when I try renaming
the user folder it tells me that I do not have permission to do it. Please
help me how I can change it to my name.

Thanks!
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Hello,

Changing the name of your user folder is not supported because many
applications depend on the name of this folder not changing.
 
The user folder name at Computer > Local Disk (C:) > users
account_folder_name can’t be changed because that folder name is used in
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too many Vista OS files. But you can change the account name at Control
Panel….User Accounts if you want to change the log-on name. The only known
easy solution is to create another user account with the desired folder name
and migrate all the settings and folders over to the new account.
 
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