PART 2 of- I had a computer shop rebuild my wife's PC due to HDD failure

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Rod Davies

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 and sorry for length?!?!?!

Rgds again
Rod
 
Rod Davies said:
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?
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Possibly... But the "default user" set up by the installation will not change in
the registry, if I recall correctly. I don't personally use or endorse VISTA yet
because of net privacy issues, but I support several systems and have seen
a few of them attempt to change the ownership (possibly a bad choice of
words given the new VISTA terminology) of the originally installed administrator.

And what would therefore happen if I:
Click to expand...
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 and sorry for length?!?!?!
Click to expand...

I'll leave this for a pro, Rod.... but I urge re-loading, properly ID-ing the default
user and administrator during the installation process, as this will keep the
registry entries and OS tools looking at the proper folders in the event of
migration.

DM


--
David Morgan (MAMS)
Morgan Audio Media Service
http://www.m-a-m-s DOT com
Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901
_____________________________
http://www.januarysound.com
 
David Morgan (MAMS) said:
but I urge re-loading, properly ID-ing the default
user and administrator during the installation process, as this will keep the
registry entries and OS tools looking at the proper folders in the event of
migration.
Click to expand...

This will also insure proper registration info and ownership rights to
future installations of software, etc..

DM
 
I thought this would be the case....tks David.

You don't 'endorse' Vista yet, yet here you are offering no doubt, sound
advice...

....bugga!!!!
 
If you renamed the account then what you are seeing is normal. XP worked the
same way. To fix it now you'd have to create another user. Copy the data
from the Lenore/Rob user profile. Delete that profile. Reboot. Create a new
Lenore user. Log on as Lenore. Copy the data to this account. Delete the
account you created in the first step.
 
Hiya Kerry

when you say "copy the data from the Lenore/RoB profile", you mean copy it
from the C:\User\RoB Davies profile? To WHERE do I copy it, just another
folder for the time being?

Rgds n tks for input.

Rod
 
Rod Davies said:
I thought this would be the case....tks David.

You don't 'endorse' Vista yet, yet here you are offering no doubt, sound
advice...

...bugga!!!!
Click to expand...

Hey... what can I say? :-) Maybe 'endorse' was a bad word. So how
about something more basic... as in, I just don't like it !

I've been reading this group daily since it's inception... and using MS
newsgroups regularly for almost 10 years. I don't intend to give sloppy
advice.

Believe me (you've seen me ask twice in your thread), I'm waiting for
an MSMVP to come along and set things straight for both of us.

I've now been through three personal installations of VISTA Home Basic
and Home Premium... I give them all way with new PC builds for clients.
I don't like the OS, and I choose not to believe that I am hallucinating or
that I am simply an unexperienced end user. ;-)


DM

PS: I you have a VISTA install DVD, I'd set the PC up correctly before
you start seriously using it. I just don't believe that copying and
pasting and deleting and renaming -and on and on- is the safe
thing to do given VISTA's history of (and continuing) fallabilities.


--
David Morgan (MAMS)
Morgan Audio Media Service
http://www.m-a-m-s DOT com
Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901
_____________________________
http://www.januarysound.com
 
Brink has it correct. When you delete the account there will be an option to
save the files. Personally I like to create a folder and copy the files
there as well. There may be folders in the user profile that you created.
These folders may not be saved by Windows as it doesn't know about them.
This method will only save data not settings. If you want to save program
settings, email, contacts, etc. you would have to manually import those or
use the Windows Easy Transfer to move them.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9e2347fc-43af-4ff9-8e33-0002b9d449561033.mspx
 
Tks Kerry, Brink and David...

timezone diffs (I am in Perth, AUstralia) meant I only just got on to see
these replies. Assistances greatly appreciated....here goes....

Rgds
Rod
 
Just a quick note of thanks...I went the route as discussed by Kerry and
Brink, no probs, very easy and all ok.
All programs work as they should and point to correct User Account. This
also solved the problem I was having with IE7 NOT saving favorites for
Lenore as it would only find the "non-existent Rob Davies User", so whilst
browsing was OK, saving of her favorites WAS not possible. It is now
though...

All settings came thru fine. Windows and Office Updates have been run,
downloaded and correctly installed. AVG likewise.

Appreciate all help and advice (from you too David!)...you all collectively
saved me heartache and time and got my missus back up and running
effectively!!! THANK YOU from Downunder.

Kind regards
Rod
Perth
Australia
 
Rod Davies said:
Just a quick note of thanks...I went the route as discussed by Kerry and
Brink, no probs, very easy and all ok.
All programs work as they should and point to correct User Account. This
also solved the problem I was having with IE7 NOT saving favorites for
Lenore as it would only find the "non-existent Rob Davies User", so whilst
browsing was OK, saving of her favorites WAS not possible. It is now
though...

All settings came thru fine. Windows and Office Updates have been run,
downloaded and correctly installed. AVG likewise.

Appreciate all help and advice (from you too David!)...you all
collectively saved me heartache and time and got my missus back up and
running effectively!!! THANK YOU from Downunder.
Click to expand...


You're welcome. Glad to hear it worked out.
 
Rod Davies said:
Just a quick note of thanks...I went the route as discussed by Kerry and
Brink, no probs, very easy and all ok.
All programs work as they should and point to correct User Account. This
also solved the problem I was having with IE7 NOT saving favorites for
Lenore as it would only find the "non-existent Rob Davies User", so whilst
browsing was OK, saving of her favorites WAS not possible. It is now
though...

All settings came thru fine. Windows and Office Updates have been run,
downloaded and correctly installed. AVG likewise.

Appreciate all help and advice (from you too David!)...you all collectively
saved me heartache and time and got my missus back up and running
effectively!!! THANK YOU from Downunder.
Click to expand...

And as usual, I picked up a great deal of information as a result
of your dilemma.... so thank *you* and cheers from Texas.

DN
 
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