[w98]
ms said:
I finally entered the offending username itself, RegEdit did go to the entry.
I changed it, did not see how to save the change.
When you enter a change via registy editor, it is automatically in effect.
I advise that you check to see if $PCMag's RegEditPlus is in your archives,
and use that instead of Regedit. It provides "safe edits," history of your
actions, undo.
Also, there are several username keys in registry.
The "registered owner" value that is mixed in here, it is a separate subject
from the user profiles.
Observe that different user profiles have correspondent registry "user.dat"
files on drive C. Look under windir\profiles. They also each have a .pwl
file (some basic passwords) in the windir.
If think it is a bad approach to attempt to change your user profile name,
if this is your goal (?), via registry edit. Find the CPL applet named
"Users." Select your active profile, choose "Make a Copy." Reboot, and log
into your new profile. Then you can delete your old profiles (although it
is handy to save one, as a backup thing).
When you first log into your new profile, you will have to, if I remember
right, re-enter your DUN stuff. I think that's the only significant detail.
You might have some temporary inconvenience, too, with the occasion app that
uses the profile name in how it stores settings in a local directory. I'm
going from memory only, and plan to bail out of this subject after this
single post. Hopefully the "Make a Profile Copy & Reboot" method, on its
own standing, will satisfy your objectives.
Of course, if all you wanted to do was the one thing, the "registered owner"
value for your copy of Windows, then you can ignore the whole matter of user
profiles.
