Re: User Management Question

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:42:31 -0500

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"stevems@stevems.com" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message news:OPN39ajyEHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I have a "User" management question that I cannot find the answer to:
> 
> I have one user login whose name is "Admin" - and another user login 
> whose name is "Bob".
> Currently, both users have Administration Rights - and when I view their 
> profiles in the <My Computer\Manage\Local Users and Groups\Users> page - 
> both the "Name" and "Full Name" fields display "Admin" and "Bob" 
> respectively.
> 
> So it looks like this:
> 
> Name        | Full Name   | Description
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Admin         Admin
> Bob           Bob
> 
> For the past year, and for reasons that are too complicated to describe 
> here, I have primarily used the "Admin" login for my general computing - 
> and my "Bob" account for administration purposes. My goal is to 
> flip-flop these user names. Now, I want my general computing login to be 
> "Bob" and my administration login to be "Admin" - but I have spent so 
> much time customizing the software, documents and settings in my "Admin" 
> account that I need to retain all those settings after I change the name 
> to "Bob". The same goes for the current "Bob" account; I want all the 
> software, documents and settings to remain intact after I change the 
> name to "Admin".
> 
> So, I basically want to rename "Admin" to "Bob" --- and "Bob" to 
> "Admin". I have gone into the User Control Panel and used the name 
> change feature and this is what I have found:
> 
> 1. It does change the login name - but it only changes the "Full Name" 
> field in the <My Computer\Manage\Local Users and Groups\Users> page   -- 
>  not the "Name" field.
> 2. Surprisingly, it does not affect the names of the "Admin" or "Bob" 
> folders in the <C:Documents and Settings> folder. I would have thought 
> that the account name and the <Documents  and Settings> folder had to 
> match so that they could be linked together. I don't understand how 
> these folders are linked and why the names don't change when you change 
> the user name.
> 
> You could imagine that this would become very complicated. My account 
> names and <C:Documents and Settings> folders would never match.
> 
> So, the question is: How do I change "Admin" to "Bob" and "Bob" to 
> "Admin" --  and have the "Admin" and "Bob" folder names in the 
> <C:Documents and Settings> folder change accordingly so that I don't 
> drive myself crazy trying to remember which folder is linked to which 
> user. I'm just not sure I can just rename those folders without doing 
> irreparable harm to Sharing and Security Permission settings - as well 
> as however they are linked to the User Account names.
> 
> ___________________________________
> 
> Also, here is an unrelated question:
> When you establish a XP User Account, you are asked if you want your 
> files to remain private. Assuming you have selected this option when you 
> setup the account - how do you make them Un-Private at a later time?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for your feedback

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