Re: Renaming user not reflected in Windows Explorer

Hi,

You could rename the folder, you would have to do it from another account because if you are logged in as the user who owns the folder things will be locked preventing it.

Now the problem is that just renaming the folder doesn't fix the association. The folder is still associated with the user account in the registry so you would have to change the relevent locations in the registry too. If you have renamed the account, the SID (Security Identifier) will be the same so permissions won't be an issue, just the association.

Honestly, IMHO the quickest thing for you to do is to create a new account instead of renaming the old one, log in and get a new folder and the move all of the stuff from the old one into the new one (documents, pictures etc...)

I hope this helps,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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"BudV" <BudVitoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OF3kQaf5JHA.4116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the response.

Before I answer your questions, I want to make sure that we're on the same wavelength here. In your example, the actual folder name hasn't changed (which is what I was complaining about originally). CO:USERS\USER was first associated with USERA, and after my change, the *same* folder is now associated with USERB. So everything is still kosher, but it's going to cause some confusion for another person looking at it. I could find out for myself, but as long as you're handy: can I rename the folder to C:\USERS\USERB to regain consistency?

Why do I want to rename the account? It's kind of stupid, but whatever...

I had backed up all my stuff from one account to an offline backup system. My PC got sick (I'll skip the details), so I erased the hard drive and reinstalled from scratch. I decided to be smarter about the user names I assigned, but I was concerned about restoring from the backup system to a user name that it didn't know about, so I used an old name just for restoring, and intended to rename it later. Of course, I found out later that it wasn't necessary to do that, because the backup system has a "Restore to ..." option. (!)

How much data? 32GB of photos.

If I can't rename the folder, I will probably create a new account, move the data, and remove the old account as you suggested.


"Jon Wallace" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eX8d$ge5JHA.1712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

When you rename a user (i'm assuming you did this in control panel -> users) you are just modifying the user account, not the actual files and folders associated with the user.

Let's say you have USERA. USERA also has a folder C:\USERS\USERA which is associated with the user account. When you rename the user account to USERB, USERB has a folder C:\USERS\USERA which is associated with USERB.

Why do you want to rename the account, how much data is stored for the account and is just creating a new one with a different name and removing the old one an option?

Cheers,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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"BudV" <BudVitoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O2fcMtd5JHA.4672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Vista Home Premium SP1.

I don't know if this occurred in XP or not.

I have renamed a user, but when I use Windows Explorer, the old user name shows up instead of the new one, even after a restart. What can I do to get consistency?





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