User accounts

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My wife isn't very computer literate, and when we bought a notebook I set it
up for her. I entered my name as a user, but figured Vista would surely
allow me to delete my name later. Boy, was I wrong. Now, though it's her
computer, my name keeps showing up, and both of us would like this to not
continue.

In 'Explorer', it shows "C:Users\Neil" as a folder, but with no option for
renaming "Neil" (my name) to my wife's name after right-clicking on it.

Any suggestions?
 
Neil said:
My wife isn't very computer literate, and when we bought a notebook I set it
up for her. I entered my name as a user, but figured Vista would surely
allow me to delete my name later. Boy, was I wrong. Now, though it's her
computer, my name keeps showing up, and both of us would like this to not
continue.

In 'Explorer', it shows "C:Users\Neil" as a folder, but with no option for
renaming "Neil" (my name) to my wife's name after right-clicking on it.

Any suggestions?
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Just make your wife her own user account, with her name. Leave your user
account on the system as an extra. Make your extra original user account
Administrative and your wife's a Standard account. It's a really good
idea to have an extra Administrative user account on the system for
emergencies.


Malke
 
brink said:
Hi Neil,

You can create a new Administrator user account with her name for it.
This tutorial will show you how.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93009-user-account-create.html


When done you can delete the other one, or have it as a backup account.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93026-user-account-delete.html

Shawn


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I appreciate your response and Malke's, but after acting on your suggestions
I now have even more problems: Perhaps it's my own fault for using the
heading "User accounts". Let me make it clear: My aim was to get my name and
any reference to me totally off my wife's computer, as we want it to be hers
alone. Now we have the added problem of that extra click needed once she
boots up.

Why was Vista so poorly designed that in "Explore" there's now that
C:\Users\Neil folder (and NONE with my wife's name), and no apparent way to
delete my name and add hers?
 
Neil said:
I appreciate your response and Malke's, but after acting on your suggestions
I now have even more problems: Perhaps it's my own fault for using the
heading "User accounts". Let me make it clear: My aim was to get my name and
any reference to me totally off my wife's computer, as we want it to be hers
alone. Now we have the added problem of that extra click needed once she
boots up.

Why was Vista so poorly designed that in "Explore" there's now that
C:\Users\Neil folder (and NONE with my wife's name), and no apparent way to
delete my name and add hers?
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If there is no C:\Users\wife folder you didn't create a user account for
her. I honestly don't know what you've done. Once again, go to the Users
applet and create a brand-new user account for your wife using her name.
Make it a Standard user account. Leave your own user account on the
system and let it be a computer administrator. You want to have an extra
account for emergencies.

Then set Windows to automatically log into your wife's new user account.
This is done the same way it was in Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

With the autologon set, the machine will boot directly to her Desktop.


Malke
 
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