C:\users\owner

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celcius

Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I remember
correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If in fact I
did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
 
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SC Tom

celcius said:
Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I
remember correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If
in fact I did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
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In order to have a "Marcel" folder, you would have had user named Marcel. On
your current PC, it may have been set up with the current user as Owner,
which is the most common way a new PC is done. You can change your current
name in Control Panel if you so desire. Go to User Accounts and click on
"Change your account name." I believe you'll have to be an administrator to
do so. Once that's done, the Owner folder should then be renamed Marcel (if
that's the new name you use)
 
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Yousuf Khan

Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I
remember correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If
in fact I did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
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You can change the "owner" username alias to Marcel, but the original
filesystem structure will remain as "owner".

The only way to create a username of Marcel, with a folder named Marcel
is to create a new user with those properties. You can then get rid of
the "owner" user afterwards, provided that you provide Marcel with the
same Administrative permissions.

Yousuf Khan
 
R

relic

celcius said:
Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I
remember correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If
in fact I did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
Click to expand...
Create the User you want with the permissions you need, then delete user
"Owner". Simple, Quick.
 
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johnbee

In order to have a "Marcel" folder, you would have had user named Marcel. On
your current PC, it may have been set up with the current user as Owner,
which is the most common way a new PC is done. You can change your current
name in Control Panel if you so desire. Go to User Accounts and click on
"Change your account name." I believe you'll have to be an administrator to
do so. Once that's done, the Owner folder should then be renamed Marcel (if
that's the new name you use)
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Just for information: it is strange but it does not work quite like
that. Once you have set up a user, the folder retains the original
name, even if you change the userame. I am afraid that I have never
deleted a user other than a mere 'pretend' one for practice when I
first got the system, so I can't tell you for certain what happens if
you delete user 'owner' and start a new one - it mght be quite drastic
and it is certain that you won't be able to foretell what will happen
unless you are advised by a very trusted expert who has done it. But
no harm at all will be done if you just alter user 'owner' to 'marcel
and leave the folders as they are.

Notice that on the startup/login screen the various users will retain
their original order even if the names are changed and you select an
option to have them in alphabetic order. So if you change username Z
to username A and choose alphabetic order for the login screen, user A
will still be on the right hand side.
 
S

SC Tom

johnbee said:
Just for information: it is strange but it does not work quite like
that. Once you have set up a user, the folder retains the original
name, even if you change the userame. I am afraid that I have never
deleted a user other than a mere 'pretend' one for practice when I
first got the system, so I can't tell you for certain what happens if
you delete user 'owner' and start a new one - it mght be quite drastic
and it is certain that you won't be able to foretell what will happen
unless you are advised by a very trusted expert who has done it. But
no harm at all will be done if you just alter user 'owner' to 'marcel
and leave the folders as they are.

Notice that on the startup/login screen the various users will retain
their original order even if the names are changed and you select an
option to have them in alphabetic order. So if you change username Z
to username A and choose alphabetic order for the login screen, user A
will still be on the right hand side.
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My bad. You are correct. I created a new user and changed the name, and sure
enough, the user's folder name remained the same as the original name. Huh!
Go figure! I thought that was how we did it years ago (probably in NT3.5 or
4.0) but I guess it didn't work that way either, or it has changed with
Windows 7.
Thanks for the correction!
 
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peter

In order to change owner to Marcel you need to copy owner to marcel
you do this by signing in as 3rd party user and creating the new Marcel
account
reboot
sign in again as 3rd party user
right click Computer/properties/advanced system settings/user
profiles/settings
from there copy user "owner" to User Marcel...you need to point it to Marcel
reboot and sign in as Marcel and it all should be there.
You could now delete user "owner"

peter



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"celcius" wrote in message
Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I remember
correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If in fact I
did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
 
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John Wunderlich

In order to change owner to Marcel you need to copy owner to
marcel you do this by signing in as 3rd party user and creating
the new Marcel account
reboot
sign in again as 3rd party user
right click Computer/properties/advanced system settings/user
profiles/settings
from there copy user "owner" to User Marcel...you need to point it
to Marcel reboot and sign in as Marcel and it all should be there.
You could now delete user "owner"

peter
Click to expand...
I agree. This is probably the best way to do it.
Microsoft has published a KB article with this procedure outlined...

"How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP"
< http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473 >

You just have to "pretend" that the owner account is corrupted.
Everything else is just as described.

-- John
 
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celcius

Hi everyone!
Sorry to have been absent from this discussion, but I had to be away for a
spell and couldn't get to this group.
Thank you all for extending yourt help.
Peter, I saved your message and try it as soon as I have a minute.
These days are a bit hectic as you presumably know ;-)
Thanks again! I wish you all a Great Xmas and a Happy New Year.
Marcel

"celcius" wrote in message
Hi everyone!
I recently changed my computer. On my last one (also Win 7), *if I remember
correctly*, I had changed C:\users\owner to C:\users\marcel. If in fact I
did, I can't remember how I did it, cause now, it seems I can't.
Is it possible? How please?
Thanks,
Marcel
 
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