Re: Renaming a system folder?

dkb wrote:

dkb wrote:

My C drive has a folder " the Documents and settings". Clicking on this folder showes me four folders namely: Administrator, All Users, Default User and another with the name (xxx).
I would like to rename (xxx) to (yyy). How would I do it?
Please guide?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks every one who guided me in this endeavour. Though Bruce said that it cannot be renamed, curiosity killed the cat, I went ahead with the guidance that was given by John.
I made one more administrative account and did what John said above. In the process I got altogether a new interface/profile on the desktop and all the icons on the desktop of the then yyy were nowhere.
I went to the registry and saw that renaming had only added a period and now it read xxx.yyy (though renaming was perfect but reboot made it xxx.yyy ) . So I again renamed to xxx and rebooted to see all back and then deleted the new administrative account.

You're welcome. As I said, you can rename the folder but you *must* manually make the changes to the ProfileImagePath in the registry, renaming accounts or folders does not make the necessary changes at the the key. Also keep in mind that some applications installed under the old profile path may have "hard coded" pointers to the old name instead of the %username% variable and they may have to be reinstalled to properly use the newly renamed folder. Other than that there should be no problems with the renamed profile folder.

John

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