Re: User Name added .computer name under My Documents

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:58:25 -0500

Jim wrote:
> Thanks. I don't want the directory name and login name
> to be totally different. I want the \jlinck folder to
> become my default folder for everything (and I login as
> jlinck). I assume I won't have trouble dumping the
> \jlinck.jlinckoffice folder and having Windows know that
> I want to use the jlinck folder once I take ownership as
> described.

Doesn't work that way. There was a reason it changed to that directory.
You would have to change a registry entry as well and even then, if there
was something wrong with the original profile, then it's just going to
recreate the "new named" directory. 

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