Re: XPhome vs username

Look under Users and Groups in XP Pro. There is a name column and a full
name column. Full name is what displays on the logon menu, name is what is
used for the logon name. Either can be renamed.

In xp home, you dn't have this option. I believe what is happening si that
I rename the user and the full name gets changed, but the original username
portion remains the same??



"Gordon" <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JoeM wrote:
Is there no way to set the username for a user in XP home? "Users and
Groups" is not available under "Computer Management". All I'm
finding is the bonehead UI for setting up and "managing" users, under
control panel??? I can change the display name, but that apparently
doesn't set the username (like right clicking / Rename of the user in
"users and groups"). I'm assuming that the username is wrong since
I'm not able to get onto nor view the network workgroup.

Help?

The display name usually IS the "username".........in other words if I
create a user with the name "gordon" then that is both what is displayed
as the User and is also the username, ie the account name. AFAIK XP
doesn't have separate usernames and display names, unlike Unix/Linux.




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